Environments MDPI

05/06/2026

🌟 Editor's Choice Article

📄 Water Reuse: A Comprehensive Review
👥 By Fivos Florides and colleagues (Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης)

Water scarcity has emerged as a pressing global concern, driven by population growth, urbanization, and climate change. As freshwater resources dwindle, the imperative for water reuse becomes increasingly apparent. Reusing water presents a sustainable solution to mitigate scarcity, offering a way to maximize the efficiency of available resources. This review delves into the multifaceted landscape of water consumption and reuse, aiming to provide a comprehensive analysis and understanding of this critical issue.

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Water scarcity has emerged as a pressing global concern, driven by population growth, urbanization, and climate change. As freshwater resources dwindle, the imperative for water reuse becomes increasingly apparent. Reusing water presents a sustainable solution to mitigate scarcity, offering a way to...

04/06/2026

🌟 2025 CiteScore Update

We are delighted to announce that our journal has received a 2025 CiteScore of 5.7, achieving Q1 ranking in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Thank you to our authors, reviewers, and editors for their continued contributions.
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04/06/2026

📢 Now Accepting Submissions for Our Special Issue

We invite researchers to contribute to the Special Issue:
📚 Monitoring and Risk Assessment of
👥 Guest Editors: Dr. Min Kyu Park and Dr. Ana Luísa Maulvault

We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions that will help deepen our understanding of environmental contaminants and support the development of effective measures to safeguard environmental and public health.

📅 Submission Deadline: 20 October 2026
🔗 Submit your work: https://brnw.ch/21x35h4

Environments, an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal.

03/06/2026

🌟 Editor's Choice Article

📄 The Origin of Phthalates in Algae: Biosynthesis and Environmental Bioaccumulation
👥 By Andrea Pace and colleagues (Università degli Studi di Palermo / NBFC - National Biodiversity Future Center)
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Phthalic acid esters (PAEs) are a class of ubiquitous and dangerous lipophilic chemicals widely used as additives in various products to improve their physical and chemical properties. Although they have been banned in many countries, their persistence in all environmental compartments is of particu...

28/05/2026

Decarbonization Pathways in the European Union: Sectoral Contributions to CO2 Emissions Reductions (2000–2022)

✍by Hasan Tutar, Dalia Štreimikienė and Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos

👉https://brnw.ch/21x2TC8

26/05/2026

An Effective Biomonitor of Potentially Toxic Elements in Marine Ecosystems: The Brown Alga Dictyota spiralis

✍by Maria Antonietta Nitopi et al.
👉 https://brnw.ch/21x2PMm

26/05/2026

🚆 Excited to announce Session 6 of our conference: Worldwide Mobility!

Global mobility through trade, tourism, and business is increasingly shaping ecosystems and human living environments around the world. Expanding transport infrastructure, including roads, airports, railways, and shipping networks, together with the growing demand for innovative transport technologies, are contributing to rising resource consumption, pollution, and environmental pressures.
This session will focus on the environmental and societal impacts of worldwide mobility, while exploring strategies for more sustainable transportation systems, reduced resource consumption, and improved quality of life for both people and ecosystems.

🎓 Session Chair:
Dr. Xu Tian, School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

🔎 Learn more about the conference: https://brnw.ch/21x2Po6

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts and register for IOCE 2027.

Submit Your Abstracts - https://brnw.ch/21x2Po5
Register for FREE - https://brnw.ch/21x2Po7

Don’t miss the upcoming IOCE 2027, taking place on 2–4 March 2027!

25/05/2026

Exposure of Zebrafish Embryos to Urea Affects NOS1 Gene Expression in Neuronal Cells

✍by Pietro Cacialli et al.
👉https://brnw.ch/21x2NS4

25/05/2026

⛏️ Excited to announce Session 5 of our conference: This Mine is Mine!

The growing global demand for energy, crucial minerals, and rare earth elements, which are essential for modern electronic and digital technologies, is intensifying mining activities worldwide. This raises critical concerns regarding mineral resource appropriation, geopolitical conflicts, environmental pollution, land degradation, and impacts on water quality, biodiversity, ecosystems, and human health.
This session will explore sustainable strategies for responsible mineral management, including resource efficiency, recycling, pollution prevention, and restoration of degraded mining areas, with the goal of ensuring both present and future environmental quality and societal well-being.

🎓 Session Chair:
Professor Maria Laura Parisi, Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

🔎 Learn more about the conference: https://brnw.ch/21x2NRc

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts and register for IOCE 2027.
Submit Your Abstracts - https://brnw.ch/21x2NRe
Register for FREE - https://brnw.ch/21x2NRd

Don’t miss the upcoming IOCE 2027, taking place on 2–4 March 2027!

22/05/2026

Rare Earth Elements (REE): Origins, Dispersion, and Environmental Implications—A Comprehensive Review

✍by Manfred Sager and Oliver Wiche
👉https://brnw.ch/21x2Jls

The rare earth elements (REE) comprise a group of 16 chemically very similar elements that occur widespread in rocks, soils, and water bodies, share similar ionic radii to the essential element Ca2+, and consequently also occur in biota. Given that REE form mainly trivalent cations, they also share ...