Beginning in 2019, Environment International became an open access journal and further expanded its scope into new areas of research to become a multi-disciplinary journal publishing high quality and novel information within the broad field of 'Environmental Sciences'.

Coverage includes, but is not limited to, the following research topics:
1) Public Health and Health Impact Assessment, Environmental Epidemiology (Prof. Mark Nieuwenhuijsen)
2) Environmental Health and Risk Assessment, Environmental Chemistry (Prof. Adrian Covaci)
3) Environmental Monitoring and Processes, Environmental Microbiology and Toxicology (Prof. Yong-Guan Zhu)
4) Environmental Technology (Prof. Zhen Jason He)

The journal has published before on many of the above mentioned topics, and thus they are familiar to authors, readers, reviewers and editors. In particular, the following specific topics are welcome (non-exhaustive list), as long that they have a strong environmental aspect and applicability and if they discuss "interactions between environment and humans" in the broad sense. 

1) Public Health and Health Impact Assessment, Environmental Epidemiology (Prof. Mark Nieuwenhuijsen)
The section overseen by Prof. Nieuwenhuijsen will cover novel topics related to the exposure assessment and epidemiology of indoor and outdoor air quality, noise, green space, temperature and other environmental exposures, the assessment and health effect of urban and transport planning and the built environment. We also welcome innovative research on women, children, migrants and elderly as specific and vulnerable sub-populations. Other topics of interest relate to the health implications and impacts of climate change with specific reference to sustainable development, including planetary health and urban health. 

2) Environmental Health and Risk Assessment, Environmental Chemistry (Prof. Adrian Covaci)
The section overseen by Prof. Covaci covers novel topics related to the assessment, modelling and impact of chemicals of emerging concern on human exposure and human exposome in general, which are important in environmental and health risk assessment. We also welcome novel and innovative approaches for human biomonitoring and environmental "omics", for a broad range of Persistent Organic Pollutants, Endocrine Disruptors and Emerging Contaminants, including microplastics. These tools are pivotal for the correct evaluation of source apportionment, exposure, fate, bioavailability, and biotransformation of environmental and food contaminants. We also want to attract innovative papers investigating the link between ecosystem health and human health and their input on the chemicals policy and regulation. We strongly encourage the submission of systematic reviews related to environmental and human health risk assessment. 

3) Environmental Monitoring and Processes, Environmental Microbiology and Toxicology (Prof. Yong-Guan Zhu)
The section overseen by Prof. Zhu will cover environmental processes, ecotoxicology and environmental microbiology. For environmental processes, we welcome novel and innovative research submissions addressing biogeochemical processes in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and their influence on the status and fate of contaminants and nutrients. Under the topic of ecotoxicology, we will cover novel areas of toxicological studies, particularly on molecular mechanisms of emerging contaminants and population dynamics under contamination. We also welcome papers on environmental microbiology, addressing fundamental interactions between environmental conditions and microorganisms, both ecology and molecular mechanisms; and the dynamics of microbial genes in the environment. 

4) Environmental Technology (Prof. Zhen Jason He)
The Environmental Technology section, overseen by Prof. He, responds to increasing attention on technological solutions which will lead to an improvement of our environment and quality of life in general. We will consider innovative research on, but not limited to: technologies for minimizing and treating contaminants, and/or maximizing recovery of valuable resources from wastes such as energy, nutrients, and water; technologies for sensing and monitoring the quality of water, air, and other environmental compartments; and technologies for analyzing emerging contaminants via chemical and microbiological methods. We welcome both applied and fundamental research that develops novel and innovative technologies with a strong environmental application potential, that address key limitations of existing technologies, and/or demonstrate technologies in the real world using methods with strong scientific merit. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary research that connects environmental technologies to public and environmental health, resource recovery, social economics, and sustainability.

Editorial articles
Research Articles 
Correspondence is encouraged
Reviews represent articles
Systematic reviews
New Developments
Special issues

Co-Editors-in-Chief
Adrian Covaci
University of Antwerp Toxicological Centre, Wilrijk, Belgium Email Adrian CovaciEnvironmental Chemistry & Health, Risk AssessmentHuman exposure; Exposure assessment; Human health effects; Biomarkers; Food safety; Biomonitoring; Indoor pollution; Emerging contaminants; Legacy contaminants; Wastewater epidemiology
Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, PhD
Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain Email Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, PhD Public Health, Environmental Epidemiology & Health Impact AssessmentEnvironmental epidemiology; Environmental exposure assessmen'; Health impact assessment; Air pollution; Green space; Noise; Temperature; Built environment
Zhen (Jason) He, Ph.D.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United StatesEmail Zhen (Jason) He, Ph.D. Environmental TechnologyWater pollution and treatment; Environmental biotechnology; Resource recovery from wastes; Bioelectrochemical systems; Bioenergy; Membrane technology; Bioremediation; Desalination
Yongguan Zhu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Email Yongguan Zhu
Special Issue Editor
Dr. Da Chen
Jinan University, Guangzhou, China Email Dr. Da Chen
Associate Editors
Environmental Chemistry & Health, Risk Assessment
Lesa L. Aylward
Summit Toxicology LLP Falls Church, Falls Church, Virginia, United States Toxicokinetics, chemical risk assessment; pharmacokinetic modeling and data in the assessment of toxicology, exposure, and risk
Olga-Ioanna Kalantzi
University of the Aegean Department of Environment, Mytilini, Greece Environmental Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Emerging Contaminants, Ecotoxicology, Environmental Health, Children's Health, Environmental Epidemiology
Martí Nadal
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Lab.Toxicology and Environmental Health, Reus, Catalonia, Spain Heavy metals, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Emerging Pollutants, Human exposure, Health risk assessment, Waste management, Food toxicology, Dietary intake, Environmental monitoring, In-silico tools, Environmental toxicology
Shoji F. Nakayama, MD, PhD
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan Environment and Children’s Study Programme Office, Tsukuba, Japan Environmental health; Children; Exposome; Exposure; Contaminants of emerging concern
Heather Stapleton
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States Environmental Chemistry, Human Exposure, Children’s Environmental Health, Metabolism and Biotransformation, Halogenated Persistent Pollutants, Endocrine Disruptors, Flame Retardant Use & Exposure, In Vitro Assays for Thyroid Disruption.
Environmental Processes, Quality, Toxicology & Microbiology
Professor Hefa Cheng
Peking University, Beijing, China Environmental geochemistry; Heavy metals; Environmental monitoring; Health risk assessment; Food safety; Soil pollution; Waste management; Environmental transport and fate of pollutants; Waste treatment and disposal
Professor Frederic Coulon
Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford, United Kingdom Remediation, hazardous waste, water and wastewater treatment ; Risk assessment and remediation; Bioaerosols; Hydrocarbons; Environmental microbiology; Antarctic science
Environmental Technology
Thanh Huong (Helen) Nguyen
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States Water and food safety; Disinfection; Water distribution system; Hydroponics; Aquaponics
Guo-Ping Sheng
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China Biological wastewater treatment; Water reuse technique
Public Health, Environmental Epidemiology & Health Impact Assessment
Hanna Boogaard
Health Effects Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Air pollution epidemiology; Exposure assessment; Accountability research; Systematic reviews
Zorana Jovanovic Andersen
University of Copenhagen, København, Denmark Environmental epidemiology; Health effects related to air pollution exposure; Health effects related to road traffic noise exposure; Health effects related to wind turbine noise exposure; Health effects of green and blue spaces
Xavier Querol
Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Barcelona, SpainEnvironmental geochemistry; Air quality; Atmospheric aerosols; Tropospheric ozone; Black carbon; Ultrafine particles; Metals; Organic pollutants; Inorganic gaseous pollutants, NO2, NO, NOx, SO2, SO3, CO, NH3; Source apportionment; Urban and regional pollution; Atmosphere and climate change; Air quality policy; Mobile, industrial, domestic and agricultural emissions of air pollutants; Leaching of industrial wastes; Impact of mining on environment; Recycling of industrial wastes; Coal use related pollution
Associate Editor – Systematic Reviews
Paul Whaley
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom Systematic review; Evidence mapping; Machine learning; Chemical risk assessment; Research standards
Editorial Board
Sara Adar
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Air pollution; Particulate matter; Environmental epidemiology; Exposure assessment; Cardiovascular disease
Irini Angelidaki
Technical University of Denmark, Kongens(Kgs) Lyngby, Denmark Bioenergy; Biorefineries; Biogas; Biofuels; Bioproducts; Fermentation; Microbial ecology; Algae; Biomass; Microbial electrochemistry; Industrial biotechnology
Largus Angenent
Eberhard Karls University Tubingen Center for Bioinformatics Tübingen, Tuebingen, Germany Open-culture biotechnology; Power-to-gas; Anaerobic fermentation; Extracellular electron transfer; Boelectrochemical systems; Chain elongation; Syngas fermentation; Caproic acid; Caprylic acid; Carboxylate platform
Atsuko Araki
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Environmental Health; Exposure and Risk Assessment; Birth ohort; Environmental Chemicals (POPs, Phthalates, bisphenols); SNPs and epigenetics; Indoor Environment
Richard Atkinson
University of London St George's, London, United Kingdom Air pollution epidemiology; Cohort studies; Time series studies; Systematic review; Meta-analysis; Medical statistics
Damià Barceló
Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Barcelona, SpainEnvironmental analysis; Water and soil quality; Organic mass spectrometry; Emerging organic contaminants; Nanomaterials; Biosensors for: Analysis, Fate and Risk of Emerging Pollutants such as Pharmaceuticals and Nanomaterials in the Environment Water Pollution Control and Protection Bridging analytical chemistry with ecotoxicology- toxicity identification; Evaluation techniques used: GC and LC tandem MS, biosensors, sample preparation, automated on-line techniques for water analysis environmental samples (water, including marine waters, sediments soils, biota samples)
Linda Birnbaum
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States Environmental Toxicology, Dioxin, Endocrine Disruptors, BPAs, Flame Retardants
Julian Blasco
Institute of Marine Science of Andalucia, Puerto Real, Spain Metals; Pharmaceuticals; Nanoparticles; Pollution; Ecotoxicology; Risk assessment; Seawater; Sediment
Michael Bloom
University at Albany Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Rensselaer, New York, United States Environmental Epidemiology; Reproductive Epidemiology; Endocrine Disruptors
Bin Cao
Nanyang Technological University School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Singapore, Singapore
Andrea Capodaglio
University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy Membrane bioreactors; Microbial Fuel Cells; Microbial Electrolytic Cells; Radiolysis; AORPs; Sustainabiliy; Decentralized Wastewater Treatment; Resources Recovery; Energy Recovery; Nutrients Recovery
Nicole Cardello Deziel
Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesExposure Science (environmental measurements, biomonitoring, geospatial models); pesticides; persistent organic pollutants; hydraulic fracturing
Corinne Charlier
CHU de Liege - Hospital Sart Tilman, Liege, Belgium
Kyungho Choi
Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul, Korea, Republic ofEnvironmental Health, Environmental Toxicology, Exposure and Risk Assessment, Endocrine Disruption, Thyroid Hormones, Reproduction, Ecotoxicology , Persistent Organic Pollutants, Phenolics, Personal Care Products
Julio Díaz Jiménez
Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain Time series analysis.; cold and heat waves: impact on morbi-mortality; air pollution: impact on health; prevention plans; noise and health; urban health
José G. Dórea
University of Brasilia, Brasília, Brazil Environmental exposure to Toxic metals: Children, Mercury, Lead, Fish, Human milk
Carlos G. Dosoretz
Technion Israel Institute of Technology Division of Environmental Water and Agricultural Engineering, Haifa, Israel Advanced wastewater treatment and reuse; Effluents desalination; Biofouling; Micropollutants removal; Microbial degradation of toxic organic compounds
Raquel Duarte-Davidson
Public Health England, London, United Kingdom Human health risk assessment, exposure assessment, organic chemicsl (POB's, dioxins, PAHS), risk communication, contaminated land
Mingliang Fang
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Metabolomics; Risk Assessment; Environmental Analytical Chemistry; Gut microbiome; Biomarkers; Exposome; Mixture Effect; Non-targeted identification
Yanzheng Gao
Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China Organic contaminant; Soil-plant system; Soil contamination and remediation; Rhizosphere; Root exudates; Soil environmental chemistry; Bioremediation; Plant contamination
Yuming Guo
Monash University Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Climate change and health; Air pollution and health; Extreme weather and health; Exposure assessment; Environmental Epidemiology; Biostatistics; Machine learning; Time series analysis
Stuart Harrad
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Gerard Hoek
Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands Exposure assessment; Air pollution modelling; Environmental epidemiology
Barbara Hoffmann
University Hospital Dusseldorf Centre for Health and Society, Dusseldorf, Germany
Milena Horvat
Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Environment and health: exposure and effects of chemicals in the environment; Human exposure; Human biomonitoring; Environmental sciences (e.g. biological and geochemical cycling of chemicals); Environmental analytical chemistry; Quality systems in chemical laboratories; Metrology in environmental and health studies
Ching-Hua Huang
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States Environmental chemistry; Water quality; Physicochemical treatment processes; Drinking water quality; Wastewater reuse; Contaminants of emerging concern; Reaction kinetics and mechanism
Eric D. van Hullebusch
Institute of Earth Physics of Paris, Paris, France Resource Recovery, Solid Waste, Biological wastewater treatment, Bio-hydrometallurgy, Anaerobic Digestion, Biogeochemistry, Critical Elements
Xia Huo
Jinan University, Guangzhou, China Exposure and children’s health; Early life exposure and health risk; Developmental toxicology
Guangming Jiang
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Antarpreet Jutla
West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States Water quality; Health; Forecasting; Water resources; Remote sensing; Statistical modelling; Climate change; Infectious disease
Kurunthachalam Kannan
University at Albany State University of New York, Albany, New York, United StatesHuman exposure assessment; Biomonitoring
Holger Koch
German Social Accident Insurance Fund Institute of Preventive and Occupational Medicine, Bochum, Germany Research Interests: Biomarkers of exposure, Population studies (human biomonitoring), Exposure and risk assessment
Judy LaKind
LaKind Associates LLC, Catonsville, Maryland, United States Biomonitoring; Risk assessment; Exposure to chemicals; Systematic reviews; Data quality
Christopher Lau
US Environmental Protection Agency National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United StatesCharacterizing the chemically induced reproductive toxicity and developmental toxicity during embryonic and perinatal life stages, understanding of their modes of action, and applying such information to human health risk assessment
Dan Li
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Gabriele Ludewig
University of Iowa Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Iowa City, Iowa, United States Toxicology, genotoxicity, telomeres, PCBs, PAHs, Benzene, Quinones, mechanisms-of-action
Lena Ma
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States Biogeochemistry of trace metals in soils, wastes, and plants; Soil contamination and remediation; Phytoremediation; Chemical stabilization; Metal speciation; Metal bioavailability and bioaccessibility; Metal exposure and human health; Plant metal uptake and transport; Microbial transformation of metals; Metal availability and food safety
Nancy Bixian Mai
Institute of Geochemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, China Persistent organic pollutants (POPs); Bioaccumulation; atmosphere; Sediment; Environmental fate and transfer; Exposure and risk assessment
Mandana Mazaheri
New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment, Sydney, Australia Urban air quality; Human and environmental exposures; Green spaces and their health impacts
Lidia Mínguez-Alarcón
Harvard University T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals; Interactions diet-chemicals; Environmental mixtures; Environmental epidemiology; Reproductive epidemiology; Male infertility
Luke Naeher
The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States
David Oliver
University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom Diffuse microbial pollution from agriculture; modelling & decision support in environmental systems; fate & transfer of human pathogens; recreational water quality
Spyros G. Pavlostathis
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States Environmental biotechnology; Bioprocess engineering; Wastewater treatment; Anaerobic digestion; Biotransformation; Bioremediation; Bioenergy and biofuels; Bioelectrochemical systems; Kinetics and modeling
Nuno Ratola
University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Environmental presence and behaviour of legacy and emerging organic contaminants; Biomonitoring and chemical transport of chemicals; Advanced analytical techniques of extraction and quantification; Field sampling campaigns and sample handling protocols; Exposure assessment and prioritisation of relevant compounds; Climate change scenarios
Benoit Roig
University of Nimes, Nimes, France
Ivan Rusyn
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States Gene expressionOmics
Heqing Shen
Institute of Urban Environment Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China Biological monitoring (Bio-monitoring); Endocrine disrupting chemicals; Human microbiome; Birth cohort; Male fertility; Biomarkers; Epigenetics; OMICS with emphasis toxicometabolomics
Luis Felipe Silva Oliveira
University Corporation of the Coast Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Barranquilla, Colombia Nanothechnology in Real Samples (in special nanominerals and advanced electron bean); Soil and water researches; Atmosphere impacts (in special particulate matter)
Christian Sonne
Aarhus University Department of Environmental Science, Roskilde, Denmark Biological effects, environmental chemicals, infectious diseases, climate change, veterinary science, wildlife medicine, predatory mammals, raptorial birds, sea birds, fish, internal organs, reproductive organs, histopathology, morphology, skeletal system, bone density, immune system, endocrinology, PBPK modelling, blood biochemistry, implantation of PTT satellite transmitters, immobilization.
Massimo Stafoggia
Local Health Authority Rome 1 Department of Epidemiology, Rome, Italy Exposure assessment; statistical methods; air pollution; epidemiology; study design
Ashlynn S. Stillwell
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States Water resources; Energy systems; Policy; Urban water; Sustainability
Nico M. van Straalen
VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Guanyong Su
Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China Analytical Chemistry; Ecotoxicology; Molecular Toxicology; Environmental Monitoring; Risk Assessment; Human studies; Organic Contaminates; Flame Retardants; Urinary Biomarkers; Metabolites; Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS); Lipid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS)
Phong K. Thai
University of Queensland Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia Wastewater analysis; Water quality; Air quality; Air pollution; Environmental monitoring; Environmental health
Shilu Tong
Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Fahua Campus, Shanghai, China Environmental epidemiology, climate change, planetary health, sustainable development, quantitative risk assessment, spatiotemporal modelling
Angel del Valls
University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain
Marc-Andre Verner
University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Exposure assessment, pharmacokinetic modeling, environmental epidemiology, persistent organic pollutants, risk assessment
Jun Wu
University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States
Zuxin Xu
Tongji University, Shanghai, China Modelling & decision support in environmental systems; Urban and regional water quality; Water pollution control of river system; Urban sewage system planning; Aquatic Ecosystem management
Zhiguo Yuan
University of Queensland, Advanced Water Management Centre, Queensland, AustraliaWastewater. Modelling, BNR, Biogas, Sewer
Kai Zhang
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Department of Epidemiology Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States Air quality; Built Environment; Climate Change and Health; Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology; Exposure assessment; Exposome; GIS; Urban Health; Statistics
Yinping Zhang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China