The world's largest polluters are also the safest from the environmental damage they help create—while the countries least to ...

The gene-environment interaction of colon cancer and aspirin is unusual. It involves a mutation at a single location in the genome that has a big effect on colon cancer risk. The past 25 years of ...

Rising production and use of engineered nanomaterials increases the likelihood of environmental exposure. A preliminary modelling study shows that quantitative risk assessment is possible but a ...

This metric captures the risk pollution poses to health per capita, using a risk score from the Environmental Protection Agency that measures long-term, chronic human health effects of toxic ...

Reinhardt, Forest L., Monica M Mandelli, and Jennifer Burns. "Environmental Risk Management at Chevron Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 799-062, March 1999. (Revised April 1999.) ...

Risk management through the Office of Environmental Health and Safety manages and administers a comprehensive University insurance program designed to protect physical, financial and human resources.

Every complex disease has both genetic and environmental risk factors. Most researchers study these factors separately because of technical challenges and a lack of large, uniform datasets.