This series covers leading-edge research focusing on the environment, including current research data on the acclimation to a changing environment in Arabidopsis Thaliana; the impact of methomyl and carbofuran insecticides on the environment and their remediation by photochemical processes; systemic insecticides; phyrethroid environmental exposure as a risk factor for mammal diseases; the effect of zinc on primary and secondary metabolism of Datura innoxia and Datura sanguinea; soot particle suspensions and the stability of related foams and emulsion; ventilation and indoor air quality; and the utilisation of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous in carp culture ponds.