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Preface 3rd International Virtual Conference on Environmental Sciences 2023 15/10/2023-16/10/2023, (IVCES-2023) Al-Qasim, Babylon, 51013, Iraq. The Third International Virtual Conference on Environmental Sciences (IVCES-2023) is part of a series of specialized scientific conferences in environmental sciences, related to international activities organized by the College of Environmental Sciences, Al-Qasim Green University, Al-Qasim, Babylon, 51013, Iraq.This event is held once a year with vital topics related to current environmental issues related to environmental pollution, agriculture and food, environmental health, green technology, sustainable development, environmental risk assessment, soil science, etc.The conference aims to provide sufficient support for academics to submit their scientific papers and publish the results of their research in a peer-reviewed scientific journal affiliated with Scopus index, with a distinguished high sitescore, such as (IOP:EES), in order to enhance their scientific expertise.The college’s third international virtual conference (IVCES-2023) in 2023 carried the slogan “Nations rise with scientific research,” which means that this conference will focus, from the standpoint of scientific research, to advance societal reality to solve current issues in the field of environmental sciences and build a better future, in the recovery phase of the times with difficulties caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.It also shows the importance of highlighting the issues of climate change, drought as a result of global warming, etc. According to the announced conference program of 3rd IVCES-2023 conference was held virtually: A. The first day, Sunday, October 15, 2023, in the main building of the college, first floor, Al-Qasim Green University, Al-Qasim, Babylon, 51013, Iraq. There were 150 participants overall, and the Zoom platform was used for the plenary session. B. On the second day, Monday, October 16, 2023, using the Zoom service for meetings and conference proceedings.The efforts of the conference committees were combined, the most important of which was the Scientific Committee (as in the following photographs), which focused on the initial reviewing process of the papers submitted to the conference according to the opinions of reviewers with experience in the field of environmental specialization.More than 150 papers were submitted, but after their evaluation, only 57 scientific papers were accepted. Then we recommend that the researchers submit it again online via the Morressier platform to be re-reviewed again by expert reviewers so that the papers becomes ready for publication in an authentic manner after accepting only 52 from origin 57 submitted papers to the platform of Morressier and acceptance rate becomes 91%.List of International Virtual Conference on Environmental Sciences, IVCES-2023 are available in this Pdf.