The section of the journal Recent Progress in Science and Engineering focuses on issues relating to sustainability and sustainable development, examining the interactions between human, environmental, and engineered systems. Subject areas include, but are not limited to: air quality, ecosystem services, ecotoxicology and risk assessment, eco-hydrology, wildlife and contaminants, waste or wastewater treatment, water contaminants and health, environmental remediation of soil and groundwater, nano plastics, microplastics, and other emerging contaminants, metals and organics in biogeochemical cycles, water quality and security, atmospheric biogeochemistry,  biodiversity conservation, circular economy and society, cities and urbanization, climate change, environmental deterioration, disaster risk management, floods and drought, globalization, health and environment, human population, industrial development, life cycle assessment and management, measuring and monitoring sustainability, social sustainability, sustainable chemistry, etc. Recent Progress in Science and Engineering is an international peer-reviewed Open-Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc.