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We were determined to align the journal's mission with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)–as discussed in our previous Editorials (ref. 1 and 2). Indeed, the tag line of the journal is ‘Uniting disciplines to solve environmental challenges. Original thinking for a sustainable future’. We therefore set out ambitious and societally relevant aims and scope for the journal, as follows:‘We seek to publish work which improves our understanding of the environment and offers solutions or improvements to building a cleaner, safer, healthier, more sustainable and equitable world. Fundamental environmental research is welcomed, alongside modelling, eldwork, applied studies, policy work and studies at the environmental and social science interface. Studies that enhance holistic environmental understanding, for example by connecting different environmental compartments, linking to human health and …