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The Age of Trump

Climate change is an inconvenient footnote in Donald Trump’s historical battle for global supremacy

The Circularity Argument

Steel Authority of India Ltd’s Bhilai Steel Plant generates 2 million tonnes of basic oxygen furnace slag in a year

Industries in India are innovating to reuse high-volume wastes, and show that the transition to circular economy can usher in both environmental and financial windfalls

Threat to Survival

A Hoolock Gibbon

Hydrocarbon exploration threatens India’s only ape species, hoolock gibbon, found in Assam’s Jorhat district

Banking on flawed drug VLs

The Medicines Patent Pool is pushing for more voluntary licences (VLs), but its bad deal with Novartis on a cancer drug shows the pitfalls

The inheritance effect

Most of the world’s young billionaires have inherited their riches. This is a sign that ‘billionaire colonialism’ is setting in

‘Migration is going to be a battlefield’

Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh on the future of human movement and an increasingly xenophobic polity