News & Comment

Transitioning to a more sustainable economic system hinges on creating jobs in support of greener activities, with challenges for incumbent workers. A suite of articles highlights the need for more sustainable jobs and how to overcome the associated research gaps and political obstacles.

Exploring potential synergies of genome editing with modes of agriculture, such as agroecology, could help food security and environmental integrity.

As our reach extends outside our planet into Earth’s orbital space and beyond, the need for proactive research and equitable governance of human activity in outer space is more urgent than ever.

Reforming interventions to achieve progress for all is a tough call. Success hinges on adopting a systems-based approach.