Upstream oil extraction, which includes exploration and operation to bring crude oil to the
surface, frequently occurs near human populations. There are approximately 40,000 oil …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To broadly review the recent literature linking environmental factors
and adult female reproductive health for the UCSF–CHE Summit on Environmental …

Background: Studies suggest associations between oil and gas development (OGD) and
adverse birth outcomes, but few epidemiological studies of oil wells or inactive wells exist …

The Peruvian Amazon is culturally and biologically one of the most diverse regions on Earth.
Since the 1920s oil exploration and extraction in the region have threatened both …

In the last 50 years, oil extraction activities in the Northeast Amazonian Region (NAR) of
Ecuador impacted ecosystems and may still affect the local population health. To our …

125 ondiccu'je like his father's; Deji gave up his tunic for shirts and pants long ago. Deji is
also one of the few Cofán men who wear glasses, a fact that accounts for my joking …

Pregnancy is a complex process requiring tremendous physiological changes in the mother
in order to fulfill the needs of the growing fetus, and to give birth, expel the placenta and …

Oil spills can lead to irreversible environmental degradation and are a potential hazard to
human health. We study how onshore oil spills affect neonatal and infant mortality by …

Current oil production activities in the Oriente region span nearly one million hectares, with
over 300 producing wells and 29 production camps. The country has 4.6 billion barrels of …

Following the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, reproductive success rates in 2 northern
Gulf of Mexico (GoM) bottlenose dolphin stocks exposed to oil were evaluated for 4 yr during …