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...the role of the sun, carbon, and energy interactions between organisms in ecosystems Humans enter the equation How human activity affects the delicate energy balance in an ecosystem with often adverse consequences Managing or meddling? How ecosystems need careful understanding if we are to sustain them for the future whilst using them to our economic advantage...

...sustainable, Pallavi Anand and Daniela Schmidt explain why eating algae could expand our seafood menu...If we have to feed 9.8 billion people by 2050, food from the ocean will have to play a major role. Ending hunger and malnutrition while meeting the demand for more meat and fish as the world grows richer will require 60% more food by the middle of the century. But...

...sustainable goals. There are three important aspects to this definition: 1. Technology is about taking action to meet a human need rather than merely understanding the workings of the natural world, which is the goal of science. The invention of the microscope was driven by a need to explore the world of the small, beyond our unaided vision. This technological solution to...