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Informed substitution of hazardous chemicals through the lens of California's Safer Consumer Products Alternatives Analysis: Best practices, challenges, and opportunities

Incorporating Nature‐based Solutions into the Built Environment

A New Chapter: IEAM welcomes Editor in Chief Sabine Apitz

Investigating the exposure and impact of chemical UV filters on coral reef ecosystems: Review and research gap prioritization

Jannicke Moe on the advantages of Bayesian Network Models.

Spatiotemporal Controllability and Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Engineered Gene Drive Organisms from the Perspective of European Union Genetically Modified Organism Regulation.

We talk with co-author Nil Basu to find out what their critical review A State-of-the-Art Review of Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Pollution reveals.

A new study published in IEAM set out to find a better way to monitor fish populations in Canadian waters affected by mining activity. We spoke with lead author Alyse Kambeitz to hear more..

A new study published in IEAM set out to find a better way to monitor fish populations in Canadian waters affected by mining activity. We spoke with lead author Alyse Kambeitz to hear more..

We focus on a paper which spotlights chemicals that are common in household cleaning products yet are lacking sufficient data to allow for proper environmental risk assessments.

We focus on a paper which spotlights chemicals that are common in household cleaning products yet are lacking sufficient data to allow for proper environmental risk assessments. The chemicals of focus in this study are polymers, organic compounds with a wide range of functions including emulsifiers, dispersants, or defoaming agents.

From individuals to populations: Assessing endocrine impacts of pesticides, with Mark Crane

From individuals to populations: Assessing endocrine impacts of pesticides, with Mark Crane

A deep dive into the complexities of deep-sea mining, with Andrea Koschinsky

A deep dive into the complexities of deep-sea mining, with Andrea Koschinsky

Finding balance: Resilience in ERA, with Marco Vighi and Andreu Rico

Finding balance: Resilience in ERA, with Marco Vighi and Andreu Rico

Tipping the scales: weight of evidence approach for qualities and quantities, with Susan Cormier

Tipping the scales: weight of evidence approach for qualities and quantities, with Susan Cormier

Tipping the scales: weight of evidence approach for qualities and quantities, with Susan Cormier

Tipping the scales: weight of evidence approach for qualities and quantities, with Susan Cormier

Expanding options: Alternatives analysis and predictive tox, with Tim Malloy

Expanding options: Alternatives analysis and predictive tox, with Tim Malloy

Untapped resources: Finding the right ecotox studies for risk assessment, with Christina Rudén

You are what you eat, or so you think. The next time you sit down to enjoy that bowl of cioppino or salmon fillet, you may be ingesting more than you realize. Plastic pollution is widespread in global waters, and microplastics—particles smaller than 5 mm—are being increasingly found in the most popular seafood items

No small deal: Evaluating nanomaterials with alternatives assessment, with Rune Hjorth

No small deal: Evaluating nanomaterials with alternatives assessment, with Rune Hjorth

We chat with Ruud Jongbloed to get the highlights of CUMULEO.

Wayne Munns discusses the reasons for and challenges to the routine inclusion of ES endpoints in ERAs.

IEAM challenges practitioners and researchers to rethink the traditional linear, sequential process of ecological restoration

Stuart Hurlbert on pseudoreplication and other sins of statistical analysis

Brock Bernstein talks rigs-to-reefs and the fate of oil platforms

Author Valentina Castellani uses life cycle assessment to quantify the environmental impacts avoided by the reuse of commonplace items

An interview with Todd Bridges, US Army senior research scientist for environmental sciencee

Julie Panko talks shop on tools for chemical assessment.

Using BERA to assess a coal fly ash spill in Tennessee, with Suzy Walls.

From synthetic estrogens that feminize male fish to concerns about resistance to antibiotics, this is a growing area of research and public attention. Yet potential and long-term effects on human and ecosystem health remain largely unknown.

Biomarkers—biological endpoints long used in medical screening and disease detection—are finding new relevance in the environmental science community. Although toxicologists have been using biomarkers in certain aquatic contaminant assessments these endpoints hold great value for ecological risk assessments and integrated monitoring.

The management of contaminated sediment is often expensive and time-consuming, involving millions of dollars over many years at a single site. However, passive sampling methods offer several advantages over traditional remediation and monitoring techniques.

The January 2014 issue of IEAM contains a critical review describing a solution to a problem common to all wildlife risk assessments: how to work with sparse dose-response data.

We talk turkey with Matthew Etterson about pesticides and bird reproduction.

Monique Dubé discusses cumulative effects assessments (CEA), which account for the accumulated change over time—past, present, and future, which have been employed in limited situations in Canada and with limited success.

For What It’s Worth: Using the Ecosystem Services Concept in ERAs, with Valery Forbes and Peter Calow.

Practically speaking: Scientific Pragmatism, with Glenn Suter

David Mayfield and Anne Fairbrother talk about how they describe the challenges that ecological risk assessors face when trying employing wildlife toxicity values.

The seven articles in the series address one aspect of a multi-phase project to define sediment quality objectives, including a new sediment quality guideline, SQG, index.

Dr. David Barton, Guest Editor of the special series Bayesian Networks in Environmental and Resource Management discusses the basics of Bayesian approaches in environmental management.

Drs. Wayne Landis and Peter Chapman make a case to end the use of NOELs and LOELs.

Discussing the Phenomenon of Pre-Spawn Mortality in Coho Salmon, with Julann Spromberg and Nat Scholz .

Discussing various aspects of environmental, management and policy impact as a result of the nuclear accident in Japan in March 2011.

Drs Paul van den Brink and Donald Baird define and discuss Traits-based Ecological Risk Assessment and contrast its advantages over traditional taxonomy-based ERA.