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The National Land Cover Database (NLCD), a product suite produced through the MultiResolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) consortium, is an operational land cover monitoring program.&nbsp; Starting from a base year of 2001, NLCD releases a land cover database every 2-3-years.&nbs...

Climate-related changes to drought, fire, and insect outbreak regimes have raised concerns that western United States forests, once disturbed, may not return or reattain prior structure and composition.&nbsp; Many post-fire recruitment studies have documented absence or low densi...

Improving mental health is recognized as a key factor for achieving global development goals. There is strong evidence that neighborhood greenery promotes better mental health. However, there are environmental justice concerns over the distribution of neighborhood greenery. Under...

Review article discussing detailing the current science of monitoring and treating contaminants of emerging concern, and how water surpluses or scarcity may effect CECs.

Edge-of-field management practices that reduce nutrient pollution from tile drainage while contributing habitat and other ecosystem services are needed to enhance US Corn Belt agricultural systems. In this review, we identified edge-of-field and catchment scale agricultural conse...

Climate change is projected to impact river, lake, and wetland hydrology, with global implications for the condition and productivity of aquatic ecosystems. We integrated Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 based algorithms to track monthly surface water extent (2017&ndash;2021) for 32 sit...

The authors designed and executed the integrated assessment modeling for the United States long-term strategy. They bring diverse expertise to the modeling and analysis of United States decarbonization.

King et al. raise important issues, several of which pertain to the broader policy discourse surrounding international climate negotiations and countries’ climate pledges rather than the modeling conducted in our Policy Forum. We agree with King et al. that the updated Paris Agre...

A manuscript describing an analysis to produce an updated value for the ozone-related health impacts of methane emissions, relevant to social cost of carbon calculations.

If goals set under the Paris Agreement are met, the world may hold warming well below 2°C (1); however, parties are not on track to deliver these commitments (2), increasing focus on policy implementation to close the gap between ambition and action. Recently, the US government p...

  Effective governance of social-ecological systems (SES) is an enduring challenge, especially in coastal environments where accelerating impacts of climate change are increasing pressure on already stressed systems. While resilience is often proposed as a suitable f...

Globally, wildfires are increasing in extent, frequency, and severity. Although global climate change is a major driver and large-scale governance interventions are essential, focusing on governance at smaller scales is of great importance for fostering resilience to wildfires. I...

Natural resource governance in the face of climate change represents one of the seminal challenges of the Anthropocene. A number of innovative approaches have been developed in, among others, the fields of ecology, governance, and sustainability sciences for managing uncertainty ...

Communities across the United States are enduring, often unexpectedly, the effects of extreme events, such as excessive heat, prolonged droughts, extreme floods, and wildfires. In places where contaminated sites and waste management facilities are also present, communities must c...

As salt marshes attempt to migrate upland due to&nbsp;sea level&nbsp;rise, they will encounter many kinds of land development and infrastructure in highly populated, urbanized coastal communities. Hazardous and contaminated sites (HCSs) -- facilities and infrastructure that store...

Juvenile black sea bass Centropristis striata populations are increasing in southern New England estuaries of the northeastern USA with possible trophodynamic effects on labrid species: tautog Tautoga onitis and cunner Tautogolabrus adspersus. In this study, we examined the abund...

Future estimates of atmospheric pollutant concentrations serve as critical information for policy makers to formulate current policy indicators to achieve future targets. Tropospheric burden of O3 is modulated not only by anthropogenic and natural precursor emissions, but also ...

Enteric disease remains one of the most common concerns for public health. Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) receive domestic wastewater from sewer catchments and represent a snapshot of the enteric diseases that are circulating within the serving population, mirroring communit...

Wildland fires, which includes both wild and prescribed fires, and agricultural fires in sum is one of the largest sources of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) emissions to the atmosphere in the United States. Although wildland fire PM2.5 emissions are primarily composed of carbona...

Panarchy is a heuristic of complex systems change rooted in resilience science. The concept has been rapidly assimilated across scientific disciplines due to its potential to envision and address sustainability challenges, such as climate change and regime shifts, that pose signi...

Tributary phosphorus (P) loads are one of the main drivers of eutrophication problems in freshwater lakes. Being able to predict P loads can aid in understanding subsequent load patterns and elucidate potential degraded water quality conditions in downstream surface waters. We de...

The increasing severity and frequency of disasters across the USA is revealing a landscape that is not entirely prepared to cope with these exposures. Resilience as a socio-ecological concept has become progressively more important as a means of assessing and mitigating these los...

This forecasting approach may be useful for water managers and associated public health managers to predict near-term future high-risk cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHAB) occurrence. Freshwater cyanoHABs may grow to excessive concentrations and cause human, animal, and...

Many cold water-dependent aquatic organisms are experiencing habitat and population declines from increasing water temperatures. Identifying mechanisms which drive local and regional stream thermal regimes facilitates restoration at ecologically relevant scales. Stream temperatur...

A two-layer model based on the integrated form of Richards’ equation (RE) was recently developed to simulate the soil water movement in the roots layer and the vadose zone with a relatively shallow and dynamic water table. The model simulates thickness-averaged volumetric water c...