Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced last week that he had uncovered evidence of a massive fraud perpetrated by the Biden administration. In a video posted to social media, the...

A greater variety of microbes in house dust was associated with lower risk of allergic diseases in U.S. farmers and their spouses, according to a new study by NIEHS researchers. The findings, published June...

Composting is the best way to get rid of your kitchen scraps without sending them to the landfill. And if you’ve been composting for a while, you may have already started experimenting with composting...

1. Introduction Tapered piles, characterized by a cross-section that decreases in diameter from top to bottom along a linear variation with depth, represent an innovative cylindrical foundation type widely applied in railway, highway, or...

At least a billion people living in rural areas worldwide rely on agriculture: a livelihood that is critically vulnerable to the effects of changing weather patterns and rising temperatures caused by climate change. Many...

The city of Alto Hospicio, in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is one of the driest places on Earth. And yet its population of 140,000 continues to balloon, putting mounting pressure on nearby aquifers that haven’t...

ExtramuralBy Megan Avakian Higher BPA levels linked to worse asthma in children NIEHS grantees found that children, especially boys, with elevated levels of bisphenol A (BPA) in their urine had more asthma symptoms. The...

1. Introduction In recent decades, antibiotic-resistant bacteria have become an urgent public health problem. This fact has increased attention to the extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBLs) group of enzymes in strains of the order Enterobacterales. These...

IntramuralBy Victoria Placentra, Prashant Rai, Saniya Rattan, Payel Sil, and Nancy Urbano Butylparaben exposure targets the liver in rats Researchers from the Division of the National Toxicology Program studied the effects of butylparaben (BP)...

The climate crisis does not affect everyone in the same way. Historically marginalised groups face the greatest risks from climate change. Those who have done the least to cause the climate crisis are the...