Environmental journals: open calls for papers

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Soil quality standards and objectives
• Soil health- definition and enhancement
• Practical management of soils
• Remediation and recovery of damaged and polluted soils
• The role of soil microbial ecology
• Managing soil carbon and nutrients for sustainable soil systems
• Soil-dependent ecosystem services
• Integration of different trophic levels in soil and potential threats
• One soil, multiple habitats and functions
• Managing and protecting soil interfaces
• Anthropogenic soils

Article publication online and in issues will occur without delay to ensure the timely dissemination of the work. The articles will then be assembled on the RSC Publishing platform and promoted as a web-based thematic collection.

Environmental Science: Advances is a gold open access journal and covers advances in all areas related to environmental sustainability. Authors are welcome to submit original research as a Communication, Full Paper or Review article. Please contact the editorial office to register your interest or for more information. Alternatively, you can submit a manuscript below.

This collection will be hosted by the Advances family of journals at the Royal Society of Chemistry, which publish interdisciplinary, robust science:

• RSC Advances – At the heart of open access for the global chemistry community
• Energy Advances – Cutting-edge science at the forefront of energy technology with particular focus on emerging materials and methods
• Environmental Science: Advances – Research from any discipline that will contribute to the understanding of the environment, and to the advancement of UN Sustainable Development Goals
• Materials Advances – New understanding, applications, properties and synthesis of materials
• Nanoscale Advances – Publishing across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology

As Gold Open Access journals, the Advances family means maximum visibility for your work, to both subject specialists and a general audience.

Submit any time during the eligible period. Articles will be promoted and added to the collection as soon as they are accepted.

Choose one of our Advances journals above** and quote “New Principal Investigator Collection” in the submission form when it asks you if you are contributing to a themed collection.

Research into the extraction and recycling of materials and minerals for batteries is crucial for protecting our environment and to promote sustainable resource use. Understanding the environmental impacts and challenges associated with these activities, such as health implications for local populations exposed to air and water pollution, biodiversity loss from mining and recycling activities, and the distinct environmental effects of deep-sea versus land-based mining, can support the development of sustainable and more efficient practices.

Environmental Science: Advances is a gold open access journal covering advances in all environmental sustainability areas. Authors are welcome to submit original research as a Communication, Full Paper or Review article. Please contact the editorial office to register your interest or for more information. Alternatively, you can submit a manuscript below.

Manuscripts should be submitted via our online submission service and the Editorial Office notified by email. Please state the code “VABatMat25” in the “Comments to the Editor” submission question when you submit your manuscript, to indicate that this is a submission for the themed collection.

The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed. All manuscripts will be subject to the journal's usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the online collection as soon as they are online and will be published in a regular issue of Environmental Science: Advances.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• How PFAS materials enter our environmental systems
• Development of alternative materials
• Methods of contamination prevention
• Human exposure and toxicity
• How PFAS contaminants enter our eco systems
• The effect of PFAS of natural systems
• Remediation and recovery of damaged and polluted soils
• Water remediation methods for PFAS removal

Environmental Science: Advances is a gold open access journal and covers advances in all areas related to environmental sustainability. Authors are welcome to submit original research as a Communication, Full Paper or Review article. Please contact the editorial office to register your interest or for more information. Alternatively, you can submit a manuscript below.

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Royal Society of Chemistry’s online submission service and the Editorial Office informed by email. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed. All manuscripts will be subject to the journal's usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the online collection as soon as they are online and will be published in a regular issue of Environmental Science: Advances.

The identity and impact of many substances on the global market are not fully known because they are complex mixtures or can lead to potentially harmful transformation products. Though it is an expectation by regulators that the health and environmental impacts of chemical mixtures and transformation products are implicitly accounted for, this is very rarely done. High profile examples of harmful mixtures include chlorinated paraffins, alkyl-phenol ethoxylates. Of particular concern are so-called UVCBs ('unknown or variable composition, complex reaction products or biological materials') and polymer mixtures. Recent high-profile examples of problematic transformation products include fire stabilizer 6PPD transforming to 6PPD quinone, which has been associated with acute fish toxicity, and several substances that form the rapidly accumulating human and environmental concentrations of trifluoracetic acid (TFA), a highly persistent, mobile and potentially toxic chemical. Innovative and prospective experimental and computational approaches to identifying unknown mixtures and transformation products that are potentially causing harm are urgently needed. To address these challenges new experimental, analytical, modelling and cheminformatic tools are being developed that can help better identify the identity and impact of transformation products and mixtures, which will pave the way towards effective hazard and risk management. The challenge of addressing mixtures and transformation products represents in this a key frontier of environmental chemistry, chemical regulation and innovation.

Evidence increasingly shows that climate change affects water quality. For instance, lower precipitation reduces the river flow and therefore the dilution capacity of river systems, decreasing the water quality. Or extreme precipitation events flush untreated pollutants from urban areas and agricultural lands into surface water, also reducing the water quality. An increase in water quality constituents in surface waters affects ecosystem and human health and influences food security and energy production. Improving water quality should be a focus of water managers in the coming decades.

Water quality management should incorporate climate change impacts. Climate change adaptation is the process of adjusting to climate change impacts, such as deteriorating water quality. While some studies exist that evaluate adaptation options for water quality, and some studies include water quality when they evaluate the trade-offs of climate change adaptation, this field is still in its infancy. In this special issue, climate change adaptation for water quality and treatment has a central focus. We welcome different types of papers, including literature reviews, perspectives, modelling, field and laboratory studies. Articles could provide a more general perspective or focus on a particular pollutant, impact, adaptation option or area.