Call For Papers: Latin America: Environmental Challenges and Solutions

Latin America has some of the most diverse flora and fauna in the world with many countries in the region considered the most megadiverse globally. Its natural landscapes create diverse environments that breed terrestrial, aquatic, and marine wildlife. The region is also an important food producer for the world. This in turn has led to increasing pressure on land use change to satisfy agricultural needs and to sustain a growing economy. Accompanying environmental challenges include deforestation, soil erosion, biodiversity and ecosystems services loss, water pollution, water scarcity, and significant impacts on climate change.

In efforts to protect and sustain this unique natural environment, researchers from this region and their respective governments have made important strides in identifying the environmental challenges facing the region and developing scientific, technological, and indigenous solutions for improvement to ensure theses critical environmental resources are protected and managed sustainably. This Special Issue Call for Papers in Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) seeks contributions on the latest understanding of the environmental chemistry challenges facing the Latin America region as well as innovative solutions to address them.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Emerging contaminants in Terrestrial, Aquatic, and Marine Systems
• Ecotoxicity and Public Health challenges
• Occurrence, Fate, and Behavior of Contaminants in Indoor Air and Atmosphere
• Climate change
• Physico-Chemical Treatment and Resource Recovery
• Biogeochemical Cycling
• Bioremediation and Biotechnology
• Sustainable Systems
• Data Science

Submission to this series should be novel and seek to fill the knowledge gaps based on existing literature. ES&T is highlighting Latin American voices and this should be apparent in the submissions. We hope research from this region continues to be disseminated as it is a deeply important facet to sustaining the global environment and in turn creating meaningful changes to improve the world.

Submit your manuscript by February 9, 2027.

Organizing Editors

Fernando Rosario-Ortiz, Executive Editor, ES&T
University of Colorado Boulder, United States

Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, Associate Editor, ES&T
University of Texas at El Paso, United States

Pedro Alvarez, Executive Editor, ES&T
Rice University, United States

Frederic Leusch, Executive Editor, ES&T
Griffith University, Australia

Submission Information

We welcome submissions for this Special Issue through February 9, 2027. For more information on submission requirements, please visit the ES&T author guidelines page.

All manuscript types available in the journals may be considered for this Special Issue. Papers accepted for publication for this Special Issue will be available ASAP (as soon as publishable) online. After all submissions have been published, they will then be compiled online on a dedicated landing page to form the Special Issue. Manuscripts submitted for consideration will undergo the full rigorous peer review process expected from ACS journals.

Open Access: There are diverse open-access options for publications in American Chemical Society journals. Please visit our Open Science Resource Center for more information.

How to Submit

• Log in to the ACS Publishing Center.
• Select the "Journals" tab.
• Choose Environmental Science & Technology.
• Click "Submit."
• Select your manuscript type, and, under "Special Issue Selection," choose “Latin America: Environmental Challenges and Solutions."

If you have any general questions regarding submission to this Special Issue, please contact the managing editor (managing.editor@est.acs.org).