The increasing levels of environmental pollutants in combination with global climate change has been a matter of great concern due to the negative impacts caused to natural environments. In this sense, numerous scientific researches have been done aiming to understand how environmental pollutants affect living organisms, and how environmental changes resulting from climate change influence these effects. Studies of this nature are important to predict the environmental risks of pollutants, enabling decision-making towards the development of more efficient laws for the protection and preservation of natural environments against contamination by compounds derived from human activity. This special issue includes high quality papers on the topic that were presented at the “9th Iberoamerican Congress of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology” (CICTA 2015). The meeting covered a wide range of research studies related to negative effects generated to organisms as a result of environmental contamination by emerging compounds (drugs, microplastics, nanomaterials, personal care products, among others), allied to classic pollutants (metals, pesticides, organochlorines, petroleum derivatives, etc.), in a context of global climate change. The event will provide a forum for debate between researchers in order to discuss advances in environmental toxicology that it will enable a better understanding of the sources, dynamics and effects of environmental pollutants on living organisms, as well as will enable the discussion of future goals and challenges for the establishment of better tools for assessing environmental impacts, generating data that effectively result in solutions for their mitigation.
doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138051
