The rapid expansion of oil sands production in northern Alberta is under scrutiny worldwide due to concerns about its environmental, social, and economic impacts. Environmental concerns include climate change impacts from CO2 emissionsalongwithmore local environmental impacts such as dead birds, cancer clusters, and destruction of boreal forests.Within Canada, oil sands have become an important...

The number and volume of processed natural or synthetic chemical toxicants introduced on the market have soared over past decades. Possible human environmental exposures to potentially adverse compounds have, therefore, increased, as has awareness regarding their potential hazard for reproduction. Concomitantly, couples seeking assisted reproduction climbed sharply. Toxicant risk assessment rep...

Julia Bronnmann, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, Environmental and Business Economics, University Southern Denmark, Esbjerg; jubr{at}sam.sdu.dk