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Droughts, floods, and shifting seasons are making traditional farming less reliable in many regions. Crops that can handle this unpredictability are essential to keeping global food supply stable.

Coral bleaching events are becoming more frequent as ocean temperatures rise, and restoration efforts are still small and slow. Without faster recovery methods, many reef ecosystems may not survive this century.

Millions of tons of plastic enter the ocean every year, and cleanup efforts remove only a small fraction of it. Without cutting the source and scaling removal, marine ecosystems will keep absorbing the damage.

For decades, computer chips got faster mainly by shrinking transistors, but they're now near the smallest physically possible size. Finding a new way to keep computing power growing is an open engineering problem.

Training today's largest AI models can consume as much electricity as thousands of homes use in a year. Without more efficient methods, AI's environmental cost will keep climbing alongside its capabilities.

AI can now produce convincing text, images, and video in seconds, and detection tools are struggling to keep up. Without a reliable way to tell real from fake, public trust in what we see online keeps eroding.

Identify and counter structural barriers such as violence, unpaid care work, party gatekeeping, financing, and tokenization in local political participation.

Design repair financing, local spare-parts networks, remote diagnostics, and accountability models that keep water points functional after initial projects end.

The absence of robust, context-adapted solutions for adaptive living shorelines keeping pace with accelerating sea-level rise creates cascading risks across interconnected human and natural systems. Key missing elements include durable performance, low lifetime cost, and governance arrangements capable of sustaining impact beyond pilot stages.