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Potential reintroduction of the endangered California Condor to parts of its historic range in the Pacific Northwest would benefit from information on...

Studies on the aquatic food web, tree swallows, and the spread of contaminants take center stage at SETAC 2016.

Environmental Ratios of Cadmium and Zinc are less Toxic to Aquatic Insects than Expected

Mercury contamination is widespread, at various levels across western North America in air, soil, sediment, plants, fish and wildlife.

When you’re not dead yet, but aren’t feeling well either, there’s an EarthWord for that...

These are the first published studies to demonstrate water-quality impacts to a surface stream due to activities at an unconventional oil and gas...

The world's largest breeding population of ospreys is coping well with the long-lasting residues of toxic chemicals that were banned decades ago but...

Medical Geology is an earth science specialty that concerns how geologic materials and earth processes affect human health. 

Although the Grand Canyon segment of the Colorado River features one of the most remote ecosystems in the United States, it is not immune to exposure...

USGS discovered insecticides known as neonicotinoids in a little more than half of both urban and agricultural streams sampled across the United...