Water, energy, food, and ecology play significant roles in poverty reduction, human well-
being, and regional sustainable development. With the increasing demand for energy and …

Freshwater ecosystems provide major benefits to human wellbeing—so-called ecosystem
services (ES)—but are currently threatened among others by ecotoxicological pressure from …

Owing to a long history of anthropogenic pressures, freshwater ecosystems are among the
most vulnerable to biodiversity loss. Mitigation measures, including wastewater treatment …

The chemical pollution crisis severely threatens human and environmental health globally.
To tackle this challenge the establishment of an overarching international science–policy …

Chemicals emitted to the environment affect ecosystem health from local to global scale, and
reducing chemical impacts has become an important element of European and global …

Agriculture impacts the ecological status of freshwaters through multiple pressures such as
diffuse pollution, water abstraction, and hydromorphological alteration, strongly impairing …

Our capacity to predict trajectories of ecosystem degradation and recovery is limited,
especially when impairments are caused by multiple stressors. Recovery may be fast or …

The identification and management of high-risk contaminants have raised great concern
from governments. Facing the growing amount of data on the occurrence of emerging …

Anthropogenic alteration of physical habitat structure in streams and rivers is increasingly
recognized as a major cause of impairment worldwide. As part of their assessment of the …

Micropollutants in water environments have attracted widespread attention, but how human
and natural stressors influence the risks of micropollutants has not been comprehensively …