Farmworker-specific framework assesses PFAS contamination in agricultural soils.

EHE team earned first place in its category for sustainable cold-storage practices in International Freezer Challenge.

Different U.S. and U.K. regulations, plus limited FDA testing, leave questions about antimicrobial resistance in imported Scottish salmon.

Ama Apenteng always volunteers with a big smile.

Venkataraman Lakshmi studies how water, land, and climate interact, and how those interactions affect human health.

Long-term monitoring and targeted studies are helping researchers understand how museum operations affect the indoor environment.

Antibiotic use in agriculture threatens the health of workers and their communities, but there are potential solutions.

Shrestha researches biotechnologies for wastewater treatment, and recovering biofuels and industrial chemicals from waste and biomass.

Johns Hopkins students develop flood control and bio-solar roof designs to improve climate resilience in Baltimore’s Fells Point.

The findings suggest some vegetables may be better candidates for wastewater irrigation than others

Researchers will join new NIH-supported network working to develop new approach methodologies that complement or replace animal testing

Researchers will join new NIH-supported network working to develop new approach methodologies that complement or replace animal testing.

It powers the computer models that forecast hurricanes, track wildfire smoke, and project rising sea levels and floods. Now, the federal government plans to dismantle it. The National Center for Atmos...

This systematic review examined the duration of measles virus airborne transmissibility after a source case is no longer present to identify evidence …

Shima Hamidi, PhD, MSc, is a transportation planner and smart growth advocate with expertise in measuring urban form and its quality of life impacts.

Olin Shipstead, Engr ’21 (MSE), earned his combined bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering in 2021. Olin currently works for REV Renewables, a rene...

Johns Hopkins researchers use oyster and turkey tail mushrooms to break down psychoactive drugs commonly found in wastewater treatment byproducts.

Antidepressants and other psychoactive drugs are designed to affect the human brain. But after they enter the water system in excrement or unused drugs flushed down the drain, traces of…

With input from CDC, Megan Weil Latshaw, associate teaching professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, and Angela Zhu, at the time an undergraduate at Hopkins, built a new En...

Biosolids, the solid byproducts of wastewater treatment, are widely applied to soils to enhance nutrient levels and organic matter. However, their use raises environmental and human health concerns du...

EHE Grand Rounds

Hydrogen and methane play vital roles in producing food and energy, but to slow climate change, they must be made and used in ways that release little or no carbon dioxide. This talk explores two new…

By using machine learning to predict how molecules behave during analysis, Johns Hopkins scientists say researchers can finally match thousands of unidentified compounds to known chemicals—advancing e...

A new study found elevated and previously overlooked health risks for communities living near industrial polluters.