With the exception of infectious diseases, examination of the environmental causes of illness has been piecemeal. Gary Miller, a toxicologist at Columbia University who also addressed the meeting, ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Identifying, controlling, and preventing population exposures to potentially harmful ...

Human DNA can be sequenced from small amounts of water, sand and air in the environment to potentially extract identifiable information like genetic lineage, gender, and health risks, according to our ...

Man wearing a face mask. Image by Tim Sandle. Man wearing a face mask. Image by Tim Sandle. Human, animal, and environmental health are not three different or independent forms of health. Instead, ...

An international group of scientists are calling for a strengthened commitment to transdisciplinary collaboration to study past and present human-environmental interactions, which they say will ...

Research on the human dimensions of global change concerns human activities that alter the Earth's environment, the driving forces of those activities, the consequences of environmental change for ...

A new norm is emerging at the intersection of business, human rights, and environmental standards, increasingly endorsed by social groups, corporations, investors, and governments. Traditional free ...