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ClearEditorial: Sustainable Development Goal 14 - Life Below Water: Towards a Sustainable Ocean
This editorial introduces a research collection focused on UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 (Life Below Water), framing ocean science priorities for the UN Decade of Ocean Science (2021-2030) and calling for integrated research addressing plastic pollution, climate change, and ecosystem management.
Editorial: Achieving SDG 6: Remote Sensing Applications in Sustainable Water Management
This editorial introduces a collection of remote sensing research supporting Sustainable Development Goal 6 (clean water), presenting four studies that use satellite and Earth observation data to monitor water bodies, detect contamination, and support sustainable water management globally.
Topical Collection: International Year of Groundwater—managing future societal and environmental challenges
Researchers and hydrogeologists highlight the growing importance of groundwater in the global water cycle and call for better assessment, management, and public communication strategies to meet the UN's water-related Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
Water Resources and Sustainable Development
This editorial introduces a collection of research on water resources and sustainable development, covering water quality, human impacts on water systems, and new management technologies. While not focused on microplastics specifically, it underscores the broader challenge of keeping water clean and safe as pollution increases. The issues raised are directly relevant to microplastic contamination, which is an emerging threat to water quality worldwide.
Perceptions of Teachers in Training on Water Issues and Their Relationship to the SDGs
Researchers surveyed pre-service teachers' knowledge and attitudes about water conservation issues and their links to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, finding that while awareness of clean water access was high, understanding of indirect water-related SDG connections — including pollution and ecosystem health — was limited.
Sustainable Development Goals and Analytical Chemistry
This review examines the role analytical chemistry plays in advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting how chemical measurement and monitoring underpin progress in water quality, food safety, environmental protection, and health. The authors argue for greater integration of analytical science into SDG frameworks and policy.
Opportunities and Challenges for the Sustainability of Lakes and Reservoirs in Relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This review examines the opportunities and challenges for sustainable management of lakes and reservoirs in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Researchers assessed how emerging threats including microplastic pollution, climate change, and biological invasions affect freshwater ecosystem sustainability. The study calls for a multidimensional approach that balances economic development with environmental protection to ensure the long-term health of these critical water resources.
Advancement of Materials to Sustainable & Green World
Not relevant to microplastics — this is an editorial commentary from the International Association for Advanced Materials on sustainable materials science and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Some insights on traditional and novel approaches in microbial biotechnology that contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
This editorial highlights diverse ways microbial biotechnology contributes to sustainable development goals, discussing both traditional and novel approaches in areas including pollution remediation, food security, and resource recovery.
Editorial: Emerging approaches for sustainable management for wastewater
This editorial introduces a research collection on emerging approaches for sustainable wastewater management, highlighting advances in nutrient recovery, contaminant removal, and resource valorisation within circular economy frameworks.
Editorial: Microplastics in water and potential impacts on human health
This editorial introduces a special issue on microplastics in water and their potential impacts on human health, reviewing the state of knowledge and key unanswered questions in the field.
Water, Resources, and Resilience: Insights from Diverse Environmental Studies
This editorial introduced a collection of environmental studies addressing water resources management, water resilience, and sustainability challenges across diverse geographic and disciplinary contexts.
Treatment of Water and Wastewater: Challenges and Solutions
This editorial introduces a special issue focused on challenges and solutions in water and wastewater treatment, covering topics from emerging contaminants to innovative treatment technologies. The collection highlights how pollutants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and heavy metals present ongoing challenges for conventional treatment systems. The study emphasizes the need for advanced treatment approaches and integrated management strategies to protect water quality and public health.
Digital innovation in citizen science to enhance water quality monitoring in developing countries
This study examines how digital innovation and citizen science can be combined to enhance water quality monitoring in developing countries, particularly in relation to Sustainable Development Goal 6.3.2. The authors investigate technology-enabled participatory monitoring frameworks as cost-effective strategies for improving freshwater system data collection in resource-limited settings.
Exploring how citizen science projects measuring beach plastic debris can support UN Sustainable Development Goals
This study examines how citizen science beach plastic debris monitoring projects could help countries report progress on UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 (Life Below Water), identifying key opportunities and challenges in translating volunteer-collected data into official SDG indicators.
Sustainability of lakes and reservoirs in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals
This review paper links the sustainability of lakes and reservoirs to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, discussing threats from climate change, biological invasions, and pollution. Microplastics are mentioned among the emerging pollutants threatening freshwater ecosystem sustainability.
A Future for the Inland Fish and Fisheries Hidden Within the Sustainable Development Goals
This study examined how inland freshwater fish and fisheries are absent from the UN Sustainable Development Goals despite their significant contributions to food security, livelihoods, and ecosystem services. The authors outlined pathways to better incorporate these overlooked resources into global, national, and regional sustainability frameworks.
Challenges with microplastic pollution in the regime of UN sustainable development goals
Researchers reviewed the global challenge of microplastic pollution through the lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting how microplastics enter aquatic, terrestrial, and human health systems and how current international frameworks fall short of managing them. The review emphasizes that microplastics can carry and concentrate harmful chemicals like persistent organic pollutants, amplifying their risks throughout the food chain.
The Health of the Water Planet: Challenges and Opportunities in the Mediterranean Area. An Overview
This overview of water challenges in the Mediterranean area examines threats to water security including pollution, climate change, and overextraction, connecting water quality to the UN Sustainable Development Goals on clean water, aquatic life, and terrestrial ecosystems.
Ocean science, data, and services for the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
This review examined how ocean science, data, and services can support achievement of the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 14 on life below water and its connections to the remaining 16 SDGs. The authors argue that the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development is essential for achieving sustainable ocean stewardship.
Measuring Progress: Water-related Ecosystems and the SDGs
This report from the Measuring Progress series examines how water-related ecosystems are performing against the Sustainable Development Goals, exploring connections between water ecosystem health and broader sustainable development outcomes. Progress is uneven globally, with many water ecosystems under increasing pressure from pollution and climate change. Microplastic contamination of freshwater ecosystems is part of this wider water quality challenge.
Editorial: Freshwater science in the tropical anthropocene
This editorial introduces a research collection on freshwater science in the tropical Anthropocene, highlighting that tropical freshwater ecosystems face severe threats from urbanization, pollution, and land-use change while remaining understudied compared to temperate systems. The collection emphasizes the need for bioassessment tools, ecosystem restoration approaches, and biodiversity conservation strategies tailored to tropical freshwater environments.
Sustainable Development Goals and microplastics in seafood: a theoretical-reflective study
This theoretical review examined the relationship between microplastic contamination of seafood and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, arguing that strengthening water pollution policies and educating health professionals about microplastic risks are necessary to achieve SDG targets.
Sustainable water resources development and management in large river basins: an introduction
Researchers introduced a thematic issue on sustainable water resource management across four major Asian and African river basins — the Yellow, Yangtze, Indus, and Nile — summarizing water quality challenges and outlining research priorities for balancing human development needs with long-term water security.