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ClearAdvances in the Agro-Environment Migration of Organic Chemical Pollutants and Their Biotransformation in Crops
This review examined the migration and biotransformation of organic chemical pollutants across agricultural environments including soil, water, and crops, covering how agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals enter food chains. The authors synthesize mechanisms of pollutant uptake by crops and identify key research gaps for protecting food safety.
Future coastal water pollution under global change: multi-pollutant modeling
Researchers describe a global multi-pollutant modeling framework for assessing future coastal water pollution from nutrients, plastics, and chemicals under climate change and urbanization scenarios, arguing that managing multiple pollutants together is essential for achieving clean coastal water goals.
Estimating the potential of climatic factors for global generation of microplastics from agricultural plastic films
Researchers combined national agricultural plastic film usage data with emission factor models and Monte Carlo simulations to estimate the global generation of microplastics from agricultural films. The resulting estimates highlight the large but uncertain scale of this contamination source for soil and food security.
Ameliorating the Impact of Climate Variability on Pesticide Dynamics and Efficacy
This review examines how climate change factors — rising temperatures, altered precipitation, and shifting humidity — affect pesticide efficacy by altering pest dynamics, distribution, behavior, and the chemical properties of pesticide compounds. The authors synthesize recent empirical evidence and discuss the implications for pest management strategies under a warming climate.
First Steps Toward Sustainable Circular Uses of Chemicals: Advancing the Assessment and Management Paradigm
This article advances a framework for sustainable circular use of chemicals, proposing updated assessment and management approaches to reduce chemical hazards while enabling circularity in industrial and consumer product systems.
Agricultural Environmental Pollution, Risk Assessment, and Control
This book chapter reviews the growing burden of agricultural environmental pollution — from pesticide residues to microplastics and heavy metals — and evaluates risk assessment frameworks and control strategies for protecting soil health and food safety.
Shaping the scientific future of environmental sciences in times of multiple crises: a summary of the 12th SETAC Young Environmental Scientists Meeting in Landau in der Pfalz 2023 -
This review summarizes proceedings from a SETAC meeting focused on the future of environmental sciences amid multiple global crises, with contributions from the Student Advisory Council representing early career researchers in ecotoxicology and environmental chemistry. The paper outlines emerging research priorities and recommendations for training the next generation of environmental scientists.
Integrating microplastic research in sustainable agriculture: Challenges and future directions for food production
Researchers reviewed how microplastics interact with environmental stressors like heat, drought, and salinity to threaten crop health and food safety, finding that microplastics can increase toxic metal uptake in plants and alter growth — with risks likely to worsen as climate change intensifies.
Agricultural Microplastics Pollution: From Hidden Threats to Global Food Security Towards Sustainable Strategies
This comprehensive review examines agricultural microplastic pollution across the atmosphere, soil, water, and biological systems, proposing a framework linking farming-derived MP contamination to food security risks and calling for integrated approaches to manage MNPs in agricultural systems.
Policy options to account for multiple chemical pollutants threatening biodiversity
This review examines policy options for addressing the threat that multiple chemical pollutants — including pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals — pose to global biodiversity, analyzing regulatory frameworks and intervention strategies needed to account for mixture effects and cumulative chemical exposure.
Fate and Transport Pathways of Microplastics in Agricultural Soil and their Interaction with Agrochemicals
Researchers reviewed how microplastics and nanoplastics move through agricultural soil and interact with agrochemicals like pesticides and fertilizers. The study highlights that industrialization-driven plastic accumulation fragments into microplastics in farming environments, where their interactions with agricultural chemicals may amplify environmental and food safety risks.
Exposure pathways, environmental processes and risks of micro (nano) plastics to crops and feasible control strategies in agricultural regions
Researchers review how micro- and nanoplastics enter agricultural soils and the atmosphere, move through the rhizosphere and phyllosphere, and are taken up by crops, synthesizing the key biotic and abiotic factors that govern their bioavailability and identifying research gaps needed to develop effective pollution control strategies.
A critical review on sustainable hazardous waste management strategies: a step towards a circular economy
Researchers review global strategies for managing hazardous industrial and household waste — including chemicals, heavy metals, and electronic waste — with a focus on aligning disposal practices with circular economy principles that minimize environmental and health harm. The review finds that prevention, recycling, and advanced treatment technologies must work together, guided by stronger international policy frameworks.
Environmental fate, toxicological impact, and advanced treatment approaches: Atrazine degradation and emphasises on circular economy strategy
Researchers reviewed how atrazine — a widely used weedkiller that persists long in soil and water — harms aquatic ecosystems, disrupts hormones in animals, and poses cancer risks to humans, while examining chemical, biological, and microbial methods for breaking it down. The study highlights circular economy approaches and life cycle analysis as promising frameworks for reducing atrazine's long-term environmental footprint.
Scientific, societal and pedagogical approaches to tackle the impact of climate change on marine pollution
Researchers combined ocean elevation data, climate models, and computer simulations to show that climate change could alter the concentration and flow of marine pollution across European seas, identifying rivers near cities, coastal population growth, shipping lanes, and industrial fishing as the main sources of ocean contamination.
Environmental fate and exposure models: advances and challenges in 21st century chemical risk assessment
This review examines how computational models are used to predict where chemicals — including nanomaterials and microplastics — end up in the environment, tracing 25 years of progress and identifying key remaining gaps. It highlights the ongoing need for better bioavailability estimates and calls for expert groups to help translate these scientific advances into regulatory policy.
Influence of climate change on persistent organic pollutants and chemicals of emerging concern in the Arctic: state of knowledge and recommendations for future research
This review assesses how climate change influences the fate of persistent organic pollutants in the Arctic, finding growing evidence that warming, ice loss, and permafrost thaw are remobilizing legacy contaminants and altering their distribution in Arctic ecosystems.
Transboundary impacts of microplastics within planetary boundaries: Regulation and responses of soil-plant systems under climate change
This review examines how climate change and microplastic pollution interact to create compounding threats to soil and plant health. Higher temperatures speed up plastic breakdown into smaller, more dangerous particles, while heavy rain and wind spread them further through soil and groundwater. These processes can disrupt soil nutrients and plant growth, ultimately threatening the food supply and human health through contaminated crops.
Hydrological modelling: Insights into hydrological signals and contaminant transport
Researchers modeled how future climate-driven changes in hydrological extremes — including floods and droughts — affect contaminant transport in a heavily polluted Scottish catchment, finding that traditional models calibrated on historical data perform poorly when projecting under novel climatic conditions.
Emerging pollutants of water supplies and the effect of climate change
This review examined emerging contaminants in water supplies including pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and heavy metals, with a focus on how climate change alters their mobilization, persistence, and treatment removal efficiency. The authors highlighted that current water treatment systems were not designed to handle many of these pollutants.
Transdisciplinary research: if it's so important, why aren't we all doing it?
This Dutch paper advocates for transdisciplinary research as an essential approach for tackling complex environmental challenges, describing practical steps for collaboration between academic and applied researchers.
Revisiting the challenges of ozone depletion in life cycle assessment
Researchers reviewed 15 environmental assessment methods for measuring the harm caused by ozone depletion and found that most are outdated and incomplete. Better methods are urgently needed, especially as climate change and UV radiation increasingly interact to affect human health, food supplies, and water quality.
Software for evaluating the threat of plastic pollution to global agriculture
Researchers synthesized data on long-term plasticulture use to assess its impacts on crop productivity and greenhouse gas emissions, developing software tools to evaluate the compounding threat of macro- and microplastic accumulation in global agricultural soils on food and climate security.
Chemical Mixtures and Multiple Stressors: Same but Different?
This review highlights the parallels between chemical mixture research and multiple stressor ecology, arguing that both fields face similar challenges in predicting joint effects and would benefit from integrated frameworks combining chemical and non-chemical stressor assessments.