Look back at the decade: It’s a tinderbox world
Growth has stumped environment. The decade of 2020 is the last chance we have to walk the talk and make it right
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Look back at the decade: Globalisation
A series to highlight crucial points in the second decade of the new millenium: Here's looking at how ultra-localism started to replace globalisation
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Look back at the decade: Water Scarcity
In this series to highlight what was crucial in the second decade of the new millenium we now look at how water management became the debate point
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Look back at the decade: Youth unrest
What explains the restlessness that marked the second decade of the new Millenium.
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Look back at the decade: Clean vehicles
Electric and hybrid vehicles trylu 'arrived' in the second decade of the millenium.
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Look back at the decade: Extreme weather
The second decade of the millenium will be remembered as the one when the climate emergency set in
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Look back at the decade: Climate collapse
At the beginning of the second decade of the millenium, the world took a step backwards
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Look back at the decade: The virtual world
The WikiLeaks exposé showed us the significance of the internet in today’s interconnected world
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Look back at the decade: Antibiotic resistance
One big question from the second decade of the new millenium: Can we fight antibiotic overuse?
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Look back at the decade: Sand
India faces sand scarcity leading to conflicts and illegal trade
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Look back at the decade: Solar energy
In the second decade of the millenium, everyone wanted a piece of the pie in the sky
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Look back at the decade: Agrarian distress
A series to highlight crucial points in the second decade of the new millenium: We flag off with how near-zero income for farmers threatened the national economy
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Look back at the decade: Generic drugs
Fifteen years after it rose and went limp, the biotech sector saw a bull run of sorts
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Look back at the decade: Geopolitics
At the end of the second decade of the millenium no one knows how human activity would affect its pristine ecology
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Look back at the decade: Extinction
Future loss of species to reduce plant production
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Look back at the decade: Unemployment
Outtake from the second decade of the new millemium: India desperately needs to avail jobs for its ever increasing youth population
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Look back at the decade: Food
The second decade of the millenium saw the spread of permaculture in India
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Look back at the decade: Plastics
Second decade of the new millenium: Anti-plastic campaign starts from the seas
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