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Environment

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.

News and Updates

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NIST Shares Preliminary Findings From Hurricane Maria Investigation

NIST Moonlight Data Will Help Satellites Get a More Accurate Look at Earth

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NIST Researchers Develop Material for Measuring Arsenic in Shellfish

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