There is an increasing perception that environmental contamination by chemicals no longer poses a significant health threat and that relaxation of environmental regulations is warranted. However, many wildlife populations are showing signs of developmental, behavioral, and reproductive dysfunction due to environmental contamination by endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Scientists, regulators, and ...

The proper management of oily sludge from petroleum products storage tanks is necessary because inappropriate methods for dredging of tanks may result in high costs and increased environmental pollution. The purpose of the current study is to rank the strategies outlined by strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis using data envelopment analysis model, which provides enriched i...

Non-traditional security, often abbreviated as NTS, is a popular but rather ambiguous concept within and outside academic circles. The NTS threats and challenges are always referred to in the context of human security to focus on the security of individuals, societies and groups, which includes criminality, environmental degradation – energy, natural disasters, infectious disease and illegal mi...

The extinction of a species is inevitably preceded by the extirpation of a series of local populations. Ecological theory predicts that vulnerability to extirpation varies between populations and is ultimately linked to environmental heterogeneity. If populations of a species are present in multiple regions separated by abrupt changes in environmental conditions (e.g., biomes), spatial variatio...

biomedical l interventions and prevention strategies. It is an issue that has been a concern of public health officials for decades and has been addressed quite successfully from a national perspective. By eliminating two major sources of exposures—leaded gasoline and leaded paint—blood lead levels for the majority of Americans have dropped dramatically over the past two decades. Unfortunately,...

This editorial heralds the online publication of a new, international, peer-reviewed, open access journal, dedicated to emerging threats to human health. The Journal is an initiative of the Emerging Health Threats Forum, an independent, not-for-profit association that was established with support from the UK's Health Protection Agency. This Journal builds on the Forum's extensive emerging healt...