Climate change poses risks to human health and well-being through shifting weather patterns, increases in frequency and intensity of heat waves and other extreme weather events, rising sea levels, ocean…

Reviews knowledge of climate forcings, and recommends critical research needed to improve understanding. Whereas emphasis usually has been on how these climate forcings affect global mean temperature, this book finds…

Examines the scientific techniques used as the basis for explosives detection and determines whether other techniques provide research avenues to detection protocols. This report describe the characteristics of explosives, bombs…

Increased agricultural productivity is a major stepping stone on the path out of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, but farmers there face tremendous challenges improving production. This title…

Rivers provide about 60 percent of the nation’s drinking water and irrigation water and 10 percent of the nation’s electric power needs. The multiple and sometimes incompatible services demanded of…

Recognising the possibility and consequences of intentional threats directed at US agriculture, this book feels such attacks could come from foreign or domestic terrorists and use biological, chemical, or radiological…

The high latitudes of the Arctic and Antarctic, together with some mountainous areas with glaciers and long-lasting snow, are sometimes called the cryosphere-defined as that portion of the planet where…

A major goal of the US Department of Defense (DOD) Transformational Medical Technologies Initiative (TMTI) is to develop countermeasures that will protect military personnel against bioweapons, including specific infectious-disease agents…