The environmental pollution has become one of the most important factors affecting the human health. As an emerging interdisciplinary research field, the research of the environmental health has been booming in recent years. Based on the research results published in the top international academic journals or those with important influence in 2018, this paper reviews the research progress related to the "star" pollutants that have attracted most attention in the environmental science research. The important research results of antibiotics, superbacteria, plastics, drugs, persistent organic pollutants, pesticides and engineered nanomaterials are reviewed, which may provide a reference for the control and the management of the emerging pollutants that affect the human health.

environmental health  /  antibiotics  /  superbacteria  /  plastics  /  PPCPs  /  nanomaterials