Year: 2026
Type: editorial
Abstract: As ES&T marks its 60th anniversary, this editorial and special issue focus attention on ecotoxicology. To mark the 60-year milestone, we invited leading researchers from across the ecotoxicology community of scholars to reflect on progress and articulate priorities for the decades ahead. This ecotoxicology-focused special issue brings together those many unique and insightful voices in a collection of new articles examining the progress and challenges facing this research area. Over the past 60 years, ecotoxicology has been transformed from a mostly reactive science into an increasingly mechanistic and predictive one, yet despite extraordinary advances in technologies, data, and conceptual frameworks, we continue to struggle to anticipate environmental harm before it occurs at ecologically meaningful scales or to proactively apply our current knowledge to the a priori design of safer chemicals.
Institutions: Griffith University, Stockholm University, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Monash University, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, University of Minnesota, Duluth, University of California System, East China Normal University, National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China, University of Southern Denmark, Yunnan University, Yale University
Language: English
Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7164896873