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# Environment

## Overview

Through its partnerships with industry, government, and academia, NIST is helping to advance measurements and tools for environmental science, for example by calibrating the sensors of climate-mapping satellites and detecting ever more minute quantities of toxins and pollutants in our air, soil, water and blood.

## Environment Topics

                    Air / water / soil quality
Climate
Environmental health
Greenhouse Gas Measurements
Marine science
Sustainability

## The Research

## Projects & Programs

### Plastic Pollution Measurement Science

### Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)

### Establishing Measurement Traceability for Gaseous Mercury Emissions Monitoring

### Fundamental Guided Wave Metrology

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## Additional Resources Links

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###   The NIST Biorepository

For 40 years, NIST has been involved in archiving biological and environmental specimens in its biorepository. The specimen range from human livers, marine sediments, and fish tissues to mussels, oysters, marine mammal tissues, bird eggs and feathers, and sea turtle tissues and eggs. This national biorepository, located at the Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, S.C., is a unique resource that processes and preserves biospecimens at cryogenic temperatures (-150 °C), as well as the associated data, that are maintained through multiple partner projects. 

Learn more about the NIST Biorepository in this video.

## News

### Tracking Hormones on Land and at Sea

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### New NIST Database of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Will Help Scientists Monitor Environmental Pollution

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### NIST Upgrades Tech for Monitoring Methane Emissions

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### Wear and Tear May Cause Firefighter Gear to Release More ‘Forever Chemicals’

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