Currently used pesticides' occurrence in soils: recent results and advances in soil-monitoring and survey studies.- An Overview of Recent Research on the Role of Dissolved Organic Matter on the Environmental Fate of Pesticides in Soils.- Assessing the effects of pesticides on the soil microbial community: advances, standardization of methods and the need for a new regulatory framework.- Environmental Fate of Chiral Pesticides in Soils.- Sorption/desorption, leaching and transport behavior of pesticides in soils: A review on recent advances and published scientific research.- Plant uptake of pesticide residues from agricultural soils.- Contribution of land runoff to the release of pesticides into water bodies in arable areas.- Pesticide fate in soils under different agricultural management practices.- Biopurification systems: current advances and future prospects of on-farm biodegradation of pesticides.- Abiotic and biological technologies for the remediation of phenylurea herbicides in soils.- Bioremediation of soil ecosystems from triazine herbicides.