Negative / Null Result Report2012
Is CO 2 an Indoor Pollutant? Direct Effects of Low-to-Moderate CO 2 Concentrations on Human Decision-Making Performance
Environmental Health Perspectives
Failure-mode index
Negative results in Environmental Science
170 indexed negative results, null findings, and replication failures in Environmental Science. Each entry is a real published study whose primary finding was negative — learn what already failed before you repeat it.
Most-cited failures in Environmental Science
Negative / Null Result Report2015
Ingestion of Nanoplastics and Microplastics by Pacific Oyster Larvae
Environmental Science & Technology
Negative / Null Result Report2014
Health Effects of Chronic Arsenic Exposure
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Negative / Null Result Report2019
Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China
American Economic Journal Applied Economics
Negative / Null Result Report2014
Land-use/cover classification in a heterogeneous coastal landscape using RapidEye imagery: evaluating the performance of random forest and support vector machines classifiers
International Journal of Remote Sensing
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Cognitive Function in a Cohort of Older Men
Environmental Health Perspectives
Negative / Null Result Report2012
Association Between Changes in Air Pollution Levels During the Beijing Olympics and Biomarkers of Inflammation and Thrombosis in Healthy Young Adults
JAMA
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Uptake of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products by Soybean Plants from Soils Applied with Biosolids and Irrigated with Contaminated Water
Environmental Science & Technology
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Ingestion of Microplastic Has Limited Impact on a Marine Larva
Environmental Science & Technology
Negative / Null Result Report2018
Microplastic in riverine fish is connected to species traits
Scientific Reports
Negative / Null Result Report2020
A Global, Continental, and Regional Analysis of Changes in Extreme Precipitation
Journal of Climate
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Species sorting and neutral processes are both important during the initial assembly of bacterial communities
The ISME Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Amazon forests did not green‐up during the 2005 drought
Geophysical Research Letters
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Diversity, decoys and the dilution effect: how ecological communities affect disease risk
Journal of Experimental Biology
Negative / Null Result Report2016
Estimating local biodiversity change: a critique of papers claiming no net loss of local diversity
Ecology
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Urinary Concentrations of Parabens and Serum Hormone Levels, Semen Quality Parameters, and Sperm DNA Damage
Environmental Health Perspectives
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Parasite biodiversity faces extinction and redistribution in a changing climate
Science Advances
Negative / Null Result Report2012
Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence from Mexico’s National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program
Land Economics
Negative / Null Result Report2012
Low demand for nontraditional cookstove technologies
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2018
Belowground community responses to fire: meta‐analysis reveals contrasting responses of soil microorganisms and mesofauna
Oikos
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Long-Term Performance of Liter-Scale Microbial Fuel Cells Treating Primary Effluent Installed in a Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facility
Environmental Science & Technology
Negative / Null Result Report2014
Realized niche shift during a global biological invasion
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2011
General Antecedents of Personal Norms, Policy Acceptability, and Intentions: The Role of Values, Worldviews, and Environmental Concern
Society & Natural Resources
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Disentangling the relative importance of climate, size and competition on tree growth in Iberian forests: implications for forest management under global change
Global Change Biology
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Habitat-specific patterns and drivers of bacterial β-diversity in China’s drylands
The ISME Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2021
A Unified Clumped Isotope Thermometer Calibration (0.5–1,100°C) Using Carbonate‐Based Standardization
Geophysical Research Letters
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Conditions associated with protected area success in conservation and poverty reduction
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2015
Tropical sea surface temperatures for the past four centuries reconstructed from coral archives
Paleoceanography
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Glyphosate Use and Cancer Incidence in the Agricultural Health Study
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Negative / Null Result Report2019
Meta‐analysis supports further refinement of eDNA for monitoring aquatic species‐specific abundance in nature
Environmental DNA
Negative / Null Result Report2020
Why do several small patches hold more species than few large patches?
Global Ecology and Biogeography
Negative / Null Result Report2020
Aerosols enhance cloud lifetime and brightness along the stratus-to-cumulus transition
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Heat-related Emergency Hospitalizations for Respiratory Diseases in the Medicare Population
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Life histories predict coral community disassembly under multiple stressors
Global Change Biology
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Movement responses by wolves to industrial linear features and their effect on woodland caribou in northeastern Alberta
Ecological Applications
Negative / Null Result Report2021
Land‐Atmosphere Interactions Exacerbated the Drought and Heatwave Over Northern Europe During Summer 2018
AGU Advances
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Global assessment of flood and storm extremes with increased temperatures
Scientific Reports
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Experimental tests of the bacterial distance–decay relationship
The ISME Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2016
The community ecology of invasive species: where are we and what's next?
Ecography
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Disturbance and the Dynamics of Coral Cover on the Great Barrier Reef (1995–2009)
PLoS ONE
Negative / Null Result Report2016
Food habits of the world's grey wolves
Mammal Review
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Oral ingestion of hexavalent chromium through drinking water and cancer mortality in an industrial area of Greece - An ecological study
Environmental Health
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Evidence for Direct Electron Transfer by a Gram-Positive Bacterium Isolated from a Microbial Fuel Cell
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Negative / Null Result Report2016
Livestock Type is More Crucial Than Grazing Intensity: Traditional Cattle and Sheep Grazing in Short‐Grass Steppes
Land Degradation and Development
Negative / Null Result Report2013
How Fire History, Fire Suppression Practices and Climate Change Affect Wildfire Regimes in Mediterranean Landscapes
PLoS ONE
Negative / Null Result Report2016
A Systematic Comparison of Linear Regression–Based Statistical Methods to Assess Exposome-Health Associations
Environmental Health Perspectives
Negative / Null Result Report2011
Perfluorinated compounds are related to breast cancer risk in greenlandic inuit: A case control study
Environmental Health
Negative / Null Result Report2014
LED lighting increases the ecological impact of light pollution irrespective of color temperature
Ecological Applications
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Climate warming and Bergmann's rule through time: is there any evidence?
Evolutionary Applications