Manufacturing challenges are anticipated to become worse in the coming decades owing to global material and energy constraints combined with environmental issues associated with conventional processes
This special issue explores the influence that insects and other invertebrates have on ecosystem services and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and makes a case for insect science to promote a sustainability science approach.

Within a time span of only a few months, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has managed to spread across the world.

Viral diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, known as arboviruses, pose a significant threat to human life and are a major burden on many health systems around the world.
Quality attributes such as moisture content, colour parameters and shrinkage of apples change undesirably during the drying process.
This article supports SDGs 7 and 9 by creating a digital twin model of batteries via combining emerging machine learning technologies and battery modeling, achieving more intelligent control and longer battery life, providing key technologies for establishing an intelligent battery management framework in the future.
This article supports SDGs 7 and 9 by introducing the application of PEM fuel cells in different fields and the current status of related technologies, and it proposed that machine learning and artificial intelligence have important potential in optimizing the design, control, cost reduction, durability improvement, and monitoring operational health of fuel cells.
The new 2030 sustainable development agenda is likely to dominate policy and academic debates at both national and international levels over next 15 years and beyond.
The new European Commission plans to raise the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction target from 40% towards 55% by 2030 and make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050.