In the Autumn 2021 issue, Philip Ringrose highlights importance of younger stratigraphy as we reimagine some geoscientific careers for energy transition. Cenozoic, and particularly Quaternary Anthropocene, deposits pose biggest hazards to today’s civil engineering projects. Knowledge these is invaluable keeping on track projects with design lives that are […]

Faced with the non-optional acceptance of toxic chemical artifacts, ubiquitous interweaving chemicals in our social fabric oft en exists out sight and mind. Yet, for many, exposures signal life-changing or life-ending events, phantom threats that fail to appear as such until they become too late mitigate. Assessments toxicological risk consist what Sheila Jasanoff calls “sociotechnical imaginar...