Environmental Pollution

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Critical Time for Mercury Science to Inform Global Policy. 
  • A review of maternal prenatal exposures to environmental chemicals and psychosocial stressors-implications for research on perinatal outcomes in the ECHO program. 
  • A web-based tool to engage stakeholders in informing research planning for future decisions on emerging materials. 
  • Aerosol sprays: the evidence against them. 
  • Air pollution effects on ventilatory function of US schoolchildren. Results of studies in Cincinnati, Chattanooga, and New York. 
  • Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining. 
  • Attribution of climate forcing to economic sectors. 
  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas. 
  • Biodiversity and REDD at Copenhagen. 
  • Biological nitrogen fixation by alternative nitrogenases in boreal cyanolichens: importance of molybdenum availability and implications for current biological nitrogen fixation estimates. 
  • Brominated and chlorinated flame retardants in San Francisco Bay sediments and wildlife. 
  • Byssinosis and respiratory diseases of cotton mill workers. 
  • Carrier-facilitated bulk liquid membrane transport of iron(III)-siderophore complexes utilizing first coordination sphere recognition. 
  • Cohort Profile: Pregnancy And Childhood Epigenetics (PACE) Consortium. 
  • Cometabolic degradation of TCE vapors in a foamed emulsion bioreactor. 
  • Differences in K-ras and p53 gene mutations among pancreatic adenocarcinomas associated with regional environmental pollution. 
  • Effects of heavy metals on the respiratory proteins of marine organisms in relation to environmental pollution. 
  • Environmental Justice: the Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution. 
  • Environmental lessons from China: finding promising policies in unlikely places. 
  • From bottle to microplastics: Can we estimate how our plastic products are breaking down? 
  • Genomic and physiological responses to strong selective pressure during late organogenesis: few gene expression changes found despite striking morphological differences. 
  • Geographical clustering of pancreatic cancers in the Northeast Nile Delta region of Egypt. 
  • Inflammatory and oxidative stress responses of healthy young adults to changes in air quality during the Beijing Olympics. 
  • Mood and cognitive functions in anaesthetists working in actively scavenged operating theatres. 
  • Mortality and Health Outcomes in North Carolina Communities Located in Close Proximity to Hog Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. 
  • Plastic pollution solutions: emerging technologies to prevent and collectmarineplastic pollution. 
  • Pollution and regional variations of lung cancer mortality in the United States. 
  • Polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardants in the North American environment. 
  • Risk and markets for ecosystem services. 
  • Risk assessment and research: an essential link. 
  • Science should guide TSCA reform. 
  • Sorption of 243Am(III) to multiwall carbon nanotubes. 
  • Survey of the potential environmental and health impacts in the immediate aftermath of the coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee. 
  • The Impact of Coal-Powered Electrical Plants and Coal Ash Impoundments on the Health of Residential Communities. 
  • The association between physical inactivity and obesity is modified by five domains of environmental quality in U.S. adults: A cross-sectional study. 
  • The isotopic composition of anthropogenic boron and its potential impact on the environment. 
  • The toxicology of climate change: environmental contaminants in a warming world. 
  • Tracking complex mixtures of chemicals in our changing environment. 
  • Trading cases 
  • Why a Planetary Boundary, If It Is Not Planetary, and the Boundary Is Undefined? A Reply to Rockström et al. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Hsu-Kim, Heileen, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Poulsen, John, Associate Professor of Tropical Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Shindell, Drew Todd, Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Earth Science, Duke Science & Society
  • Vengosh, Avner, Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Environmental Quality, Nicholas Institute-Energy Initiative