Irish beef exports illustrate the tension between economic benefits and environmental sustainability in the global food system. While exports support rural livelihoods and national trade revenue, they rely on energy-intensive cold chains and contribute to high greenhouse-gas emissions, land-use pressures and equity concerns. This study proposes an integrated shipping-and-ageing intervention that reconfigures maritime logistics as a site of controlled maturation and circular by-product management. In the redesigned system, beef is slaughtered and inspected in approved land-based plants, then loaded into shipboard ageing rooms where temperature, humidity and airflow are actively controlled and... More >

The advancement of global sustainable agriculture is currently impeded by the dual challenges of energy-intensive industrial nitrogen fixation and the persistent accumulation of agro-environmental pollutants. Bioelectrocatalysis has emerged as a transformative solution to these issues by synergizing the exquisite selectivity of biological catalysts with the controllability of renewable electricity-driven systems. However, the practical deployment of bioelectrocatalytic technologies is fundamentally constrained by kinetic bottlenecks associated with interfacial electron transfer (ET) between biocatalysts and solid electrodes. This review systematically summarizes recent advances in bioelectro... More >

Photosystem II (PSII) repair is a fundamental physiological process governing the resilience of photosynthetic organisms against high light (HL) stress. A recent study by Yao et al. (2025) provides significant mechanistic insights into this process within the model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The authors characterize the lumenal immunophilin CYN38, a homolog of the Arabidopsis CYP38, identifying it as a critical auxiliary protein for the biogenesis and stabilization of PSII. Through the characterization of a unique insertion mutant, cyn38, which produces a C-terminally extended protein, the study elucidates that homodimerization of CYN38—mediated by its C-terminus—is a prerequi... More >