The recent derailment of a freight train in the U.S. state Ohio unleashed hazardous chemicals - and poisonous divisions American politics.

Hazardous chemicals are indispensable substances for the development of modern industries. However, improper storage, transportation, or handling hazardous can cause chain disasters such as leakage and explosion, seriously threatening safety people’s lives, society, economy, natural environment. In this study, we analysed occurrence evolution process various disaster events caused by chemical b...

The paper examines the rise of environmental justice issues in Australia, evident in two toxic disputes; the first, in a Perth outer suburb in Western Australia where residents faced both a hazardous waste dump and the nation's biggest chemical fire; and the second, in the Sydney suburb of Botany where residents were confronted with the destruction of what is thought to be, the world's largest ...

The chemical policies of the 1970s were limited by the assumptions that lie at their foundation and focused narrowly on only the most hazardous chemicals. The effective management of chemicals requires policies that focus on the entire body of chemicals and the production systems that make them. The future will require comprehensive chemicals policies that work within a systems framework to pha...

The release of chemical, biological and explosive (CBE) hazardous materials is a very important and recurring topic concerning personal safety and security. Consistently, the public is shocked by attacks of varying dimensions. Therefore, it is important to find methods, which provide the ability to detect and identify hazardous materials at an early stage without having contact to the danger ar...

The Biodegradative Strain Database (BSD) is a freely-accessible, web-based database providing detailed information on degradative bacteria and the hazardous substances that they degrade, including corresponding literature citations, relevant patents and links to additional web-based biological and chemical data. The BSD (http://bsd.cme.msu.edu) is being developed within the phylogenetic framewo...