(Editor's Note: Following is a reprint ofa letter sent to Donna Shalala, secretary of the Department ofHealth and Human Services, on 9June 1995.) The budget now under consideration in the Congress for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences would indefensibly threaten environmental health protection for America. For millions of Americans the environment is a major determinant of...

In October 2010, nine ministries and commissions of China jointly issued Guidance on the Strengthening of Dioxin Pollution Prevention [Ministry of Environmental Protection of People's Republic of China (MEP) 2010], which requires key dioxin-emitting industries to carry out comprehensive actions to reduce dioxin emissions. This is a major historical milestone in China's fight against dioxin poll...

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This paper discusses ways to reconcile the United Nations Millennium Development Goals with environmental sustainability at the national and international levels. The authors argue that development and better use of sustainability relevant knowledge is key, and that this requires capacity building globally, and especially in the less developed regions of the world. Also essential is stronger in...

A number of new Earth-observing missions are planned for the next decade, including Sentinel-5 aboard the European Space Agency's MetOp Second Generation satellites (pictured). 48 In the meantime researchers are finding new uses for the satellite data currently available.

Information systems relate to diverse applications, but, until recently, the use of this technology in agriculture and environment has been relatively behind the applications in the industrial sector. The publication of IJAEIS started in 2010 in order to promote the new research advances in information systems applied to agriculture and environment. This paper presents an overview of the differ...

The effects of osmotic and matric water potential on mycelial growth, production and germination of conidia, and production and maturation of pseudothecia of Pyrenophora triticirepentis (PTR), the cause of tan spot of wheat, were examined on clarified V8 juice agar amended with KCl or polyethylene glycol 8000 (PEG8000). Patterns of the growth responses of three isolates to decreasing osmotic an...

Siderophores are organic compounds with low molecular masses that are produced by microorganisms and plants growing under low iron conditions. The primary function of these compounds is to chelate the ferric iron [Fe(III)] from different terrestrial and aquatic habitats and thereby make it available for microbial and plant cells. Siderophores have received much attention in recent years because...