Nature Sustainability, Published online: 26 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41893-024-01333-7 Recycling of printed circuit boards (PCBs) is currently restricted by the intrinsic materials design of conventional PCBs. This work presents a vitrimer-based PCB that shows great end-of-life recyclability ..read more

Nature Sustainability, Published online: 26 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41893-024-01319-5 Assessing the resilience of groundwater resources can be challenging in data-sparse regions. Tritium observations and machine learning can be employed to fill gaps where traditional monitoring is insufficient and provide insight into aquifer vulnerability to pollution ..read more

Nature Sustainability, Published online: 26 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41893-024-01328-4 Achieving a circular system for electronics hinges on greener design and effective recycling methods. Now, research presents a more durable printed circuit board that can also be sustainably and effectively recycled ..read more

Nature Sustainability, Published online: 24 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41893-024-01343-5 Exploring potential synergies of genome editing with modes of agriculture, such as agroecology, could help food security and environmental integrity ..read more

Nature Sustainability, Published online: 24 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41893-024-01316-8 Oil and gas installations, offshore windfarms and other artificial constructions may enhance marine ecosystems and have been proposed to help meet conservation targets. A study synthesizes existing literature to reveal global patterns in their ecological effectiveness ..read more

Nature Sustainability, Published online: 22 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41893-024-01325-7 Ecosystem services provided by coral reefs to coastal communities can depend on upstream land-use change activities such as forest restoration. This study assessed the social and ecological benefits provided by different watershed interventions designed at regional and national scales in Mesoamerica ..read more

Nature Sustainability, Published online: 22 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41893-024-01306-w Humans rely heavily on non-renewable groundwater, especially to support agricultural production. Like other depletable resources, groundwater extraction is expected to peak and subsequently decline during the twenty-first century, highlighting imminent transformations in the availability and use of water globally ..read more

Nature Sustainability, Published online: 22 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41893-024-01323-9 This work shows a diagnosis technique that works for multiple cancers and features cost advantage, environmental compliance and user-friendly protocol ..read more

Nature Sustainability, Published online: 19 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41893-024-01331-9 Utilizing an epoxy-amine chemistry, the authors demonstrate a thermoset epoxy that is reprocessable and tough, achieving improved sustainability for this widely used plastic material ..read more

Nature Sustainability, Published online: 19 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41893-024-01330-w Hydroxylamine plays a critical role in the chemical industry, but its production currently has unfavourable environmental footprint. Now a plasma-electrochemical cascade pathway powered by electricity enables efficient hydroxylamine synthesis from ambient air and water at mild conditions ..read more