The higher incidence of breast cancer since 1940 is consistent with the greater use and proliferation of various endocrine-like chemicals in the environment.
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Climate Damages Lawsuits: A trip down memory lane
A lot of the costs of climate change will be borne by society at large, through taxes and insurance premiums.
Evaluating the Gas We Pass
Flooding can convert soils from a methane sink to a methane source to the atmosphere
The Decline and Fall of Insects
If low levels of insecticides, many of them endocrine disruptors, are involved, humans are certainly exposed as well
Chesapeake Bay: work in progress
It is the juxtaposition of the land and sea that makes estuaries so productive
Exotic Plants
No program exists to predict the potential for new species—plant or animal–to become invasive upon arrival in the U.S.
Breast feeding
Certainly providing a low-risk environment for human health carries some costs.
William Schlesinger
agriculture, carbon sequestration, climate, environmental policy, faculty, forests
agriculture, carbon sequestration, climate, environmental policy, faculty, forests
Additionality
No matter how much carbon they assimilate, the carbon uptake by an existing mature forest is not additional,
Life-time side-by-side comparison: Electric vs. gasoline automobiles
Over a similar lifetime, electric vehicles emit about 10-24% less greenhouse warming potential than conventional vehicles
3.3 Regulative and constitutive rules
Dynamical systems are composed of parts that participate in organized behavior that persists through many internal time cycles. The coherence of action of a set of parts that otherwise might have no relation to oneContinue reading