In recent years, the situation of global environmental pollution becomes more challenging. Environmental monitoring is essential to timely and accurately reflect the current situations and the trends of environmental quality. Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) as a prominent analytical technique demonstrates several advantages, such as rapid, real-time, in-situ, and simultaneous detection of multiple elements with simple sample preparation. It has great application potential in the field of environmental analysis. Therefore, it is necessary and important to review the progress of basic research and the application of LIBS technology in the environmental field. The present article reviews the research studies on LIBS analysis for environmental samples in the most recent ten years (2010–2019), and mainly includes basic research (LIBS introduction, signal enhancement, and chemometrics methods in LIBS analysis) and application progress (soil, water, and atmospheric monitoring). It will help readers to better understand the current research status of the LIBS technique in environmental monitoring.

近年来，全球环境污染的状况变得更具挑战性。环境监测对于及时，准确地反映环境质量的现状和趋势至关重要。激光诱导击穿光谱法（LIBS）作为一种重要的分析技术，显示出多种优势，例如快速，实时，原位以及通过简单的样品制备即可同时检测多种元素。它在环境分析领域具有巨大的应用潜力。因此，有必要回顾基础研究的进展和LIBS技术在环境领域的应用。本文回顾了最近十年（2010-2019年）关于LIBS分析环境样品的研究，主要包括基础研究（LIBS的引入，信号增强和LIBS分析中的化学计量学方法）和应用进展（土壤，水和大气监测）。它将帮助读者更好地了解LIBS技术在环境监测中的研究现状。