Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts publishes high quality papers in all areas of the environmental chemical sciences, including chemistry of the air, water, soil and sediment. We welcome studies on the environmental fate and effects of anthropogenic and naturally occurring contaminants, both chemical and microbiological, as well as related natural element cycling processes.
Environmental matrices
/// Coastal and Marine systems
/// Surface waters: rivers, lakes, wetlands
/// Groundwater: the subsurface and hyporheic zone
/// Snow and ice
/// Atmosphere: stratosphere and troposphere
/// Aerosols, rain and fog
/// Air: Ambient, indoor, and urban air
/// Soils, sediments, peat, and permafrost
/// Surfaces in the natural and built environment
Anthropogenic and natural contaminants
/// Priority pollutants
/// Contaminants of emerging concern
/// Pesticides and herbicides
/// Industrial solvents
/// Petroleum spills and fracking fluids
/// Pharmaceuticals and personal care products
/// Fluorochemicals
/// Flame retardants
/// Mercury and other heavy metals
/// Geogenic contaminants: Arsenic, uranium, selenium, fluoride
/// Transition metals
/// Radionuclides and f-block elements
/// Acid mine drainage
/// Airborne particulate matter
/// Plastics and other synthetic polymers
/// Proteins, nucleic acids and other biomolecules
/// Viruses, bacteria, protozoa, helminthes
/// Cyanobacteria and harmful algal blooms
/// Nutrients: Nitrate, phosphate
Biogeochemical cycles
/// Carbon: Storage, release, and cycling
/// Nitrogen cycle: N fixation, nitrification, denitrification
/// Eutrophication
/// Air-sea gas exchange
/// Trace element cycling
/// Major redox-active metals: iron and manganese
/// Biogenic emissions
Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts strongly prefers significant contributions whose results can be generalised to other systems, especially studies that characterise chemical processes (e.g. chemical and (micro)biological transformations and transport) as well as those that address contaminant impacts on ecosystems and human health.
We also welcome high impact field studies, particularly those that are broad enough to define occurrence baselines or long term trends, identify new contaminants, or those that enrich our molecular-level understanding of environmental systems.
Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts also invites papers that bridge between environmental chemistry and sustainability topics, such as life cycle assessment, materials flow analysis, and environmental decision making.
Papers that are focused primarily on water engineering and treatment technologies or on the environmental behaviour of engineered nanomaterials would be better suited to our sister journals, Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology and Environmental Science: Nano. For more details about the scopes of the Environmental Science journals, please visit http://rsc.li/envsci.
Zhong, Yuchi; Igalavithana, Avanthi Deshani; Zhang, Ming; Li, Xiaodian; Rinklebe, Joerg; Hou, Deyi; Tack, Filip M. G.; Alessi, Daniel S.; Tsang, Daniel C. W.; Ok, Yong Sik