Environmental Pollution is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes high quality research papers and review articles about all aspects of environmental pollution and its effects on ecosystems and human health. The journal welcomes high-quality process-oriented and hypothesis-based submissions that report results from original and novel research and contribute new knowledge to help address problems related to environmental pollution at a regional or global scale.

Subject areas include, but are not limited to:
• Sources and occurrences of pollutants that are clearly defined and measured in environmental compartments, food and food-related items, and human bodies;
• Interlinks between contaminant exposure and biological, ecological, and human health effects, including those of climate change;
• Contaminants of emerging concerns (including but not limited to antibiotic resistant microorganisms or genes, microplastics/nanoplastics, electronic wastes, light, and noise) and/or their biological, ecological, or human health effects;
• Laboratory and field studies on the remediation/mitigation of environmental pollution via new techniques and with clear links to biological, ecological, or human health effects;
• Modeling of pollution processes, patterns, or trends that is of clear environmental and/or human health interest;
• New techniques that measure and examine environmental occurrences, transport, behavior, and effects of pollutants within the environment or the laboratory, provided that they can be clearly used to address problems within regional or global environmental compartments.

Papers focusing on the following areas are likely to be returned to the authors without review:
• Routine surveys or monitoring programs primarily of local or regional interest;
• Descriptions of well-known contaminants, such as legacy pollutants, in yet another location;
• Studies relating to waste treatment that do not have specific relevance to pollution within the environment;
• Synthesis/fabrication of new materials solely for remediation and/or mitigation of pollution without any direct environmental relevance;
• Nitrogen or phosphorus deposition or biogeochemical processes with little or no relation to environmental consequences and/or climate change;
• Studies on eutrophication and secondary pollution by eutrophication without illuminating their governing mechanisms and factors;
• Studies within which the concentrations of toxicants used are higher than those that are typically found in an environmental pollution context. Authors of toxicology studies must justify the concentrations that they are using by reference to environmentally relevant concentrations that have been reported in the literature.

Please DO NOT ask the Editors-in-Chief for permission before submitting a manuscript. Kindly check the guidelines to determine whether your manuscript is within the scope of the journal; if yes, please go ahead and submit it.

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Critical Reviews
Commentary
Correspondence
Special Issues

Co-Editors-in-Chief
Professor Christian Sonne
Aarhus University Department of Environmental Science, Roskilde, Denmark Email Professor Christian Sonne Biological effects, environmental chemicals, infectious diseases, climate change, veterinary science, wildlife medicine, predatory mammals, raptorial birds, sea birds, fish, internal organs, reproductive organs, histopathology, morphology, skeletal system, bone density, immune system, endocrinology, PBPK modelling, blood biochemistry, implantation of PTT satellite transmitters, immobilization.
Professor Eddy Zeng
Jinan University, Guangzhou, China Email Professor Eddy Zeng Persistent organic pollutants; Bioaccumulation; Human exposure; Health risk assessment; Inter-compartmental diffusion flux; Passive sampling; Wet and dry deposition
Special Issue Editor
Prof. Dr. Jörg Rinklebe
University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany Email Prof. Dr. Jörg Rinklebe
Associate Editors
Da Chen
Jinan University, Guangzhou, China Email Da Chen Environmental chemistry; Analytical chemistry; Ecotoxicology; Persistent organic pollutants; Flame retardants; Pesticides; Mass spectrometry; Gas/liquid chormatography.
Wen Chen
Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China Email Wen Chen Environmental Toxicology; Chemical Carcinogenesis; Epigenetic Regulation; Biomarkers
Payam Dadvand
Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain Email Payam DadvandEpidemiological studies on the health effects of environmental factors.
Maria Cristina Fossi
University of Siena, Siena, Italy Email Maria Cristina Fossi Marine Pollution; Persistent Organic Contaminants; Aquatic Toxicology; Microplastic; Plastic, Marine Litter; Ecotoxicological biomarkers; Marine Mammals; Large marine vertebrates; Endocrine disruptors.
Sarah Harmon
University of South Carolina Aiken, Aiken, South Carolina, United States Email Sarah Harmon Aquatic toxicology; Water pollution; Heavy metals toxicity; Fecal coliform pollution; Mercury toxicity.
Klaus Kümmerer
Leuphana University of Lüneburg Institute for Sustainable and Environmental Chemistry, Lüneburg, Germany Email Klaus Kümmerer Sustainable Chemistry; Green Chemistry; Green and Sustainable Pharmacy; Resources; Benign by Design; Environmental Chemistry; Time and sustainability
Bernd Nowack
Empa Technology and Society Laboratory, St Gallen, Switzerland Email Bernd NowackNanomaterials, nanoparticles, microplastics, soil pollution, environmental risk assessment, life cycle assessment, chelating agents
Yong Sik Ok, PhD
Korea University Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of Email Yong Sik Ok, PhD Biochar, Resilience, Soil remediation, Biomass, Bioenergy
Jörg Rinklebe
University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany Email Jörg Rinklebe Soils, sediments, waters, plants, and their pollutions (in particular trace elements and nutrients) and linked biogeochemical issues with a special focus in redox chemistry; Remediation of soils and soil microbiology.
Philip Smith
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY, Lubbock, Texas, United States Email Philip SmithEcotoxicology, ecological risk assessment, wildlife toxicology.
Admir Créso Targino
Federal Technological University of Parana Department of Physics, Londrina, Brazil Email Admir Créso Targino Air pollution in urban environments; Personal exposure to air pollutants; Urban climate; Aerosol measurement instrumentation; Short-lived climate pollutants; Long-range atmospheric transport
Wen-Xiong Wang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong KongEmail Wen-Xiong Wang Metals, Ecotoxicology, Pollution, Biogeochemistry, Nanotoxicology
Charles Wong, PhD
Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Costa Mesa, California, United States Email Charles Wong, PhD Environmental organic chemistry, persistent organic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, metabolites and transformation products, environmental/analytical chemistry, passive samplers, wastewater, ecotoxicology, bioaccumulation and food web interactions.
Baoshan Xing
University of Massachusetts Amherst Stockbridge School of Agriculture, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States Email Baoshan Xing Engineered Nanoparticles; Organic Contaminants; Biochar; Soil Organic Matter; Sorption Of Organic Chemicals.
Editorial Board
Dula Amarasiriwardena
Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States Email Dula Amarasiriwardena Metal Pollution, environmental trace metal determination (ICP-MS, LA-ICP-MS), metal chemical speciation, toxic metals in soils, tissue level, elemental bioimaging, nanoparticles in environment, environmental remediation-metals, humic substances in the environment.
Lian-Jun Bao
Jinan University, Guangzhou, China Email Lian-Jun Bao E-waste, flame retardants, organic chemicals, PAHs, microplastics.
Allen Barker
University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Plant Soil and Insect Sciences, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States Email Allen Barker
Nigel Bell
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom Email Nigel Bell Effects of air pollution on managed and natural ecosystems; radioecology; waste management.
Man Yu Bon
Education University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong Email Man Yu BonPersistent toxic substances; Soil contamination; Environmental pollution of electronic waste; Health risk assessments; Recycling of food waste
Juergen Burkhardt  
University of Bonn, Germany Email Juergen Burkhardt  
Art Chappelka
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States Email Art Chappelka Air pollution and global climate effects to terrestrial ecosystems; Native plant community responses (shifts in diversity) to air pollutants and global climate change; Plant-stress-air pollution/global climate change interactions; Urban ecology and ecosystem services
Alessandra De Marco
ENEA Casaccia Research Centre, Santa Maria di Galeria, Italy Email Alessandra De Marco Impacts of air pollution on vegetation, with particular interest on ozone and nitrogen deposition; climate change and air pollution interactions and their synergistic impacts on ecosystems; integrated assessment modelling for evaluating impacts of policies and measures to reduce air pollution; nitrogen cycle and nitrogen budget and their importance in agricultural field
Jean-Pierre Desforges
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Email Jean-Pierre Desforges Marine mammals, immunotoxicity, ecologic modeling, population dynamics
Marisa Domingos
Brazilian Association of Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics, Monte Alegre,Ribeirão Preto, Brazil Email Marisa Domingos Environmental pollution and climatic change effects on natural vegetation, particularly in the tropics and subtropics, air-plant-soil interactions in polluted terrestrial ecosystems, physiologic, metabolic, structural/ultrastructural markers of increased plant tolerance against air pollutants and other environmental stressors, disturbances on nutrient dynamics in polluted terrestrial ecosystems, physiognomic/landscape disturbances in polluted terrestrial ecosystems, the search of innovative biomonitoring technics for evaluating risks posed by air pollutant, ozone, nitrogen and sulfur oxides, particulate matter, fluorine, trace metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Paulo Renato Dorneles
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Email Paulo Renato DornelesEcology of pollutant exposure, sustainable and safe fisheries; mercury pollution, marine mammals
Zafar Fatmi
Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan Email Zafar Fatmi Environmental epidemiology; air pollution; cognitive effects of air pollution; risk assessment, health effects of heavy metals
Bin Gao
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States Email Bin Gao Biochar, nanoparticles, environmental nanotechnology, contaminant fate and transport, organics
Martin Hansen
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Email Martin Hansen Hormone-disrupting chemicals, endocrine disruptors, organic pollutants, exposome, metabolome and proteome in animal studies
Markus Hauck
University of Freiburg Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Freiburg, GermanyEmail Markus Hauck Global change ecology; Climate warming; Eutrophication; Acidic deposition; Heavy metals in terrestrial ecosystems; Land use; Lichen biology
Frank von Hippel
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States Email Frank von HippelPerchlorate, OC pesticides, PCBs, PBDEs, PFCs, toxic metals (mercury, manganese, copper, arsenic)Ecotoxicology research incorporates molecular (gene expression), organismal (endocrine disruption, developmental disruption, behavior), and ecological approaches (stable isotopes) to solve problems in conservation biology and environmental health. A critical component of several of my larger research projects is community-based participatory research (CBPR) with indigenous people.
Deyi Hou
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Email Deyi Hou Sustainability assessment; Life cycle assessment; Environmental footprint analysis; Risk management; Contaminated soil and groundwater remediation; Heavy metal contamination; Biochar production and application; Green synthesis of environmental functional materials; Fate and transport of volatile organic compounds in porous media
Magali Houde
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Downsview, Ontario, Canada Email Magali Houde Aquatic ecotoxicology, organic pollutants, toxicogenomics, biological effects, zooplankton and fish, bioaccumulation, impacts of waste water treatment plant effluent, emerging flame retardants, polyfluoroalkyl substances, marine mammals
Paul Jagals
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Email Paul JagalsEnvironmental risk assessment and impact assessment, health-related water quality, waste and sanitation, translating environmental health research into policy and practice
Harri Kankaanpaa
Marine Research Institute, HELSINKI, Finland Email Harri Kankaanpaa
Haider Khwaja
New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States Email Haider Khwaja Air pollution, black carbon, particulate matter, Asian megacities, water contamination
Chunyang Liao
Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Yantai, China Email Chunyang Liao Emerging organic contaminants, endocrine disrupting chemicals, pesticides, environmental analytical chemistry, environmental behavior and fate, bioavailability, toxicological effects, and risk assessment
Daohui Lin
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Email Daohui Lin Nanomaterials; Ecotoxicity; Nanotoxicity; Bioavailability; Colloidal behavior; Sorption
Rainer Lohmann
University of Rhode Island Coastal Institute, Narragansett, Rhode Island, United StatesEmail Rainer Lohmann Passive samplers, POPs, sorption, bioaccumulation, atmospheric chemistry, marine pollution, long-range transport, oceans, black carbon, organic geochemistry.
Lisbeth Lopez-Carrillo
Email Lisbeth Lopez-Carrillo Epidemiology, breast cancer, arsenic, persistent organic pollutants, diet.
Stefano Loppi
University of Siena, Siena, Italy Email Stefano Loppi Air quality, Air pollution, Biomonitoring, Biodiversity, Heavy metals, Lichens, plants
Michael Lydy
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois, United States Email Michael Lydy Pesticides, toxic effects on aquatic systems, pyrethroid insecticides, bioavailability, desorption-based samplers, sediment-associated organic contaminants, honey bees declines.
Melissa A. McKinney
McGill University Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Sainte-Anne-De-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada Email Melissa A. McKinney Ecological change, environmental stressors, wildlife toxicology, fish, land and marine mammals
Denise Mitrano
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland Email Denise Mitrano Water quality analysis, analytical method development, nanomaterials, microplastics (including nanoplastic, microplastic fibers), life cycle thinking
Kunihiko Nakai
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Email Kunihiko Nakai Heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, epidemiology, birth cohort studies, risk assessment/analysis, methylmercury, Minamata convention
Willie Peijnenburg
Leiden University Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden, Netherlands Email Willie Peijnenburg Risk assessment; Ecological risk assessment; Environmental fate and effect assessment; Nanoparticles; Bioavailability; Metals; Organics; Quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs); Transformation of chemical substances; Biodegradation; Abiotic transformations
Elijah J. Petersen
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United StatesEmail Elijah J. Petersen Nanomaterials, carbon nanomaterials, standardization, nanoecotoxicity, carbon nanotubes.
Stergios Pirintsos
University of Crete Voutes Campus, Iraklion, Crete, Greece Email Stergios PirintsosBiomonitoring of air pollution, trace elements and nitrogen using lichens, climate change issues and lichens, lichens and hydrogen production, lichen physiology and pollution, sensitivity issues of lichens, lichen diversity and vegetation in Mediterranean ecosystems.
Hakan Pleijel
University of Gothenburg, Goteborg, Sweden Email Hakan Pleijel Ozone (effects on vegetation), carbon dioxide (effects on vegetation),urban ecology (especially air pollution in relation to vegetation),temporal and spatial variation in air pollution exposure, crops (especially effects of air pollutants on growth and nutrient content),deposition of air pollutants, weather and climate dependence of air pollution, climate change effects on crops.
Markus Puschenreiter
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Wien, Austria Email Markus Puschenreiter Heavy metals/trace elements in soils and plants, rhizosphere processes involved in metal/trace element acquisition, soil remediation technologies / phytoremediation
Sabry M. Shaheen, PhD
University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany Email Sabry M. Shaheen, PhD Heavy metals, trace elements, soil and environmental science, waste management, risk assessment.
Richard Shore
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom Email Richard Shore
Stefania Squizzato
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States Email Stefania SquizzatoAtmospheric Sciences, focusing on the identification of sources in different PM fractions, application of statistical tools to the study of air pollution, particulate matter sampling and analytical determination of inorganic composition using IC, ICP-OES and ICP-MS
John Ssempebwa
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda Email John Ssempebwa Environmental pollution, PAHs, water and sanitation, occupational health
Daniel Tsang, PhD, CEnv, BEng, PGDip (Tert Tchg)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Email Daniel Tsang, PhD, CEnv, BEng, PGDip (Tert Tchg) Green chemistry/engineering; Soil/sediment remediation; Engineered biochar; Waste valorization; Resource recovery; Wastewater/stormwater treatment; Catalytic conversion/degradation; Pollutant transport; Environmental pollution | Sustainable urban development, urban wastes, contaminated land and water, waste management (food, wood, plastic agro, sludge), green remediation, wastewater treatment.
Jason Unrine
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States Email Jason UnrineNanomaterials, metals, soils, contaminant fate, bioavailability, agriculture, ecosystem services, radionuclides, synchrotron methods
Doris Vetterlein
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Department of Soil System Research, Halle, Germany Email Doris Vetterlein
Courtney Waugh
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Email Courtney Waugh Toxicology, disease and immunology of wild, captive and domestic animals
Yanhong Wei
Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China Email Yanhong Wei Persistent organic pollutants, zebrafish, cardiovascular toxicology, developmental toxicology, toxicity pathways
Jason White
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesEmail Jason White Nanotoxicology, food safety, bioremediation and phytoremediation.
Paul Williams
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Email Paul Williams Toxic trace elements, 2D high-resolution chemical imaging, rhizophere chemistry, soil-plant interactions, diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT), arsenic/selenium biogeochemistry, bioavailability of metals, human health impacts of arsenic, cadmium and lead, urban & sustainable agriculture, advanced analytical approaches for contaminant quantification, soil & water pollution.
Feng Xiao
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States Email Feng XiaoPerfluorochemicals (PFCs) and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs); Perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS); Biochar, char, soot, black carbon, and activated carbon, absorption. water chemistry, drinking-water treatment, emerging contaminants and environmental monitoring, geographic Information system; exploratory data analysis; exposure assessment.
Scott Young
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Email Scott Young Bioavailability, speciation and mobility of trace metals and radioisotopes in the environment and specifically with the geochemical controls over trace element deficiency and toxicity.
Yunjiang Yu
South China Institute of Environmental Science, Guangzhou, China Email Yunjiang YuEnvironmental occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants, ecological toxicology of pollutants, risk assessment of chemicals
Shuzhen Zhang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Email Shuzhen Zhang soil contamination; Sorption/desorption of organic contaminants; Bioaccumulation and transformation of organic contaminants in the terrestrial environment; Applications of synchrotron-based spectroscopy techniques in environmental chemistry, NOM analysis and effects on contaminant behaviors
Fangjie Zhao
Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China Email Fangjie Zhao Biogeochemistry of trace elements, uptake and detoxification of heavy metals in plants, bioremediation.
Jian Zhao
Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China Email Jian Zhao Nanomaterials, adsorption organics; PPCPs, colloidal chemistry, microplastics, aquatic toxicology, environmental transformation.
Qing Zhao
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Email Qing Zhao