World Solve is a public institutional repository for identifying real unresolved problems across science, society, health, governance, economics, and local systems. Each entry is intended to be citable, inspectable, and actionable.
Species face extinction from multiple pressures. Protected areas and habitat corridors are needed.
Glacier loss and development threaten them. Integrated mountain governance is needed.
Smallholder farmers often rely on traditional knowledge rather than timely forecasts, exposing them to avoidable losses. SMS-based localized forecast services and climate advisory platforms could improve resilience.
Fruit, vegetables, and fish often spoil before reaching international markets due to temperature breaks along the supply chain. Investment in integrated cold-chain infrastructure and IoT monitoring could reduce losses.
Paper-based evidence tracking increases the risk of loss and delays case resolution. Secure digital evidence registries could improve judicial efficiency.
Inadequate cold storage and warehousing cause spoilage of fruits, vegetables, and grains before reaching markets. Modular solar cold-storage units are a scalable rural business opportunity.
Overcrowded classrooms, underpaid teachers, and pandemic-era learning loss have left millions behind grade level. Structured foundational literacy programs paired with teacher coaching apps have shown strong results.
Cities like Manila, Jakarta, and Mumbai rank among the world's most congested, costing billions in lost time and fuel. Integrated mass-transit expansion and smart traffic-management systems are urgently needed.
Many SMEs adopt digital payment and e-commerce tools without understanding basic security practices, exposing them to fraud. Simple, affordable cybersecurity training programs tailored for small businesses could reduce losses.
Poor storage, lack of cold chains, and bad rural roads mean food rots before reaching markets even amid hunger. Low-cost solar cold storage and mobile market-linkage apps are viable business opportunities.
Aging infrastructure and illegal connections cause massive revenue leakage for power companies, discouraging investment. Smart metering and blockchain-based billing systems could reduce losses significantly.
Astronauts lose up to 1-2% of bone mass per month in microgravity despite daily intensive physical exercise regimes. Artificial gravity habitats or gene-targeted therapeutics are needed to enable multi-year interstellar trips.
Space-based solar power requires transmitting multi-gigawatt microwave or laser beams safely through Earth's atmosphere. Phased array antenna precision and efficiency losses remain significant engineering bottlenecks.
Pressurized gloves force astronauts to constantly fight suit resistance, leading to fingernail loss and severe hand fatigue. Robotic assistance exoskeletons or active pressure-sensing glove joints are needed.
Up to 40% of fresh produce in nations like Vietnam, Myanmar, and Indonesia spoils before reaching urban markets due to lack of refrigerated transport, decentralized storage, and unreliable off-grid power, exacerbating regional food insecurity.
Indigenous peoples routinely lack formal land titles to ancestral territories, leading to forced displacement and loss of livelihoods when lands are designated for industrial agriculture, mining, or forestry concessions.
Asia operates hundreds of young, high-emitting coal plants protected by long-term power purchase agreements. Early retirement initiatives face severe financial losses and political resistance from domestic energy sectors.
Aging low-voltage power lines lose up to 25% of generated electricity during transmission across vast rural distances before reaching households.
Encroachment on natural urban drainage lakes leaves rainwater with nowhere to sink, causing severe flash flooding that shuts down entire economic centers.
Highways and railway lines cutting through elephant migration corridors trigger frequent violent encounters, destroying crops and causing loss of human and elephant lives.