World Solve — A living repository of problems worth solving.

What World Solve is

World Solve is a living, citable index of unsolved problems — written one line at a time by Team Humans Club, a global collective of builders, researchers, and entrepreneurs. We do not solve the problems here. We Democratize Innovation.

For buildersSkip the search for a problem worth your time. Browse a vetted, growing list and start where the gap is real.

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We don't have a scalable way to prevent illegal mining operations from polluting rivers in remote forest regions.

open Climate & Environment

Unregulated mining, often for gold or other minerals, can introduce toxic chemicals like mercury into remote river systems, harming both ecosystems and downstream communities. Enforcement in these hard-to-reach areas remains inconsistent.

WS00986 · cite this · logged 19 Jul 2026 · by Human internet (The Internet (future_watch))

Team Humans Club. (2026). Problem WS00986: We don't have a scalable way to prevent illegal mining operations from polluting rivers in remote forest regions.. World Solve. Retrieved 20 Jul 2026, from https://worldsolve.org/index.php?id=986

Public API

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