Environment change

The negative impacts of climate change are mounting much faster than scientists
predicted less than a decade ago, according to the latest report from a United
Nations climate panel..(1) Many impacts are unavoidable and will hit the world’s
most vulnerable populations hardest, it warns — but collective action from
governments to both curb greenhouse-gas emissions and prepare communities to
live with global warming could yet avert the worst outcomes(2, 3)

“The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal,(4)” says Maarten van Aalst, a

climate scientist who heads the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre in
Enschede, the Netherlands, and is a co-author of the report.(5) “Any further delay
in global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and rapidly closing
window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.”(6)

Environmental Pollution is an international peer-reviewed journal high-qualityes

high quality research papers and review articles about all aspects of
environmental pollution and its effects on ecosystems and human health. (7,
8)The journal welcomes high-quality process-oriented and hypothesis-
based submissions that report results from original and novel research and
contribute new knowledge to help address problems related to environmental
pollution at a regional or global scale.(9-11)

Subject areas include, but are not limited to:

• Sources and occurrences of pollutants that are clearly defined and measured
in environmental compartments, food and food-related items, and human
bodies; 10
• Interlinks between contaminant exposure and biological, ecological, and human
health effects, including those of climate change(12);
• Contaminants of emerging concerns (including but antibiotic-resistantiotic
resistant microorganisms or genes, microplastics/nanoplastics, electronic wastes,
light, and noise) and/or their biological, ecological, or human health effects;(13,
14)
• Laboratory and field studies on the remediation/mitigation of environmental
pollution via new techniques and with clear links to biological, ecological, or
human health effects.(15)

1. Hoffmann R, Muttarak R, Peisker J, Stanig P. Climate change experiences raise environmental

concerns and promote Green voting. Nature Climate Change. 2022;12(2):148-55.
2. Kasperson JX, Kasperson RE, Turner B, Hsieh W, Schiller A. Vulnerability to global environmental
change. The social contours of risk: Routledge; 2022. p. 245-85.
3. Olabi A, Abdelkareem MA. Renewable energy and climate change. Renewable and Sustainable
Energy Reviews. 2022;158:112111.
4. Maier A, Ludwig P, Zimmermann A, Schmidt I. The Sunny Side of the Ice Age: Solar Insolation as
a Potential Long-Term Pacemaker for Demographic Developments in Europe Between 43 and 15 ka Ago:
Special Issue: The Impact of Upper Pleistocene Climatic and Environmental Change on Hominin
Occupations and Landscape Use, Part 1. PaleoAnthropology. 2022:35-51.
5. Pörtner H-O, Roberts DC, Adams H, Adler C, Aldunce P, Ali E, et al. Climate change 2022:
Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. 2022.
6. Rolnick D, Donti PL, Kaack LH, Kochanski K, Lacoste A, Sankaran K, et al. Tackling climate change
with machine learning. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). 2022;55(2):1-96.
7. Buttazzoni A, Doherty S, Minaker L. How do urban environments affect young people’s mental
health? A novel conceptual framework to bridge public health, planning, and neurourbanism. Public
Health Reports. 2022;137(1):48-61.
8. Cao Q, Luan Q, Liu Y, Wang R. The effects of 2D and 3D building morphology on urban
environments: A multi-scale analysis in the Beijing metropolitan region. Building and Environment.
2021;192:107635.
9. Dou C, Zheng L, Wang W, Shabaz M. Evaluation of urban environmental and economic
coordination based on discrete mathematical model. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2021;2021.
10. Majchrowska S, Mikołajczyk A, Ferlin M, Klawikowska Z, Plantykow MA, Kwasigroch A, et al.
Deep learning-based waste detection in natural and urban environments. Waste Management.
2022;138:274-84.
11. Oke TR. Urban environments. The surface climates of Canada. 1997:303-27.
12. Mora C, McKenzie T, Gaw IM, Dean JM, von Hammerstein H, Knudson TA, et al. Over half of
known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change. Nature climate change.
2022;12(9):869-75.
13. Morris AD, Braune BM, Gamberg M, Stow J, O'Brien J, Letcher RJ. Temporal change and the
influence of climate and weather factors on mercury concentrations in Hudson Bay polar bears, caribou,
and seabird eggs. Environmental Research. 2022;207:112169.
14. Perkins-Kirkpatrick SE, Stone DA, Mitchell DM, Rosier S, King AD, Lo Y, et al. On the attribution of
the impacts of extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change. Environmental Research
Letters. 2022;17(2):024009.
15. Schwartz HM. The European Union, the United States, and trade: Metaphorical climate change,
not bad weather. Politics and Governance. 2022;10(2):186-97.