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The field of environmental science and technology is highly interdisciplinary. It brings together knowledge and expertise from variety of disciplines ranging from different aspects of ecology to chemistry, microbiology to statistics, soil science to biology and water management to toxicology. Environmental or atmospheric scientists are not the stereotype alarmists who press the siren button of ‘global warming’ but they strive and employ transdisciplinary knowledge to develop science and technology based strategy to address the sustainability of air, water and soil. Moreover, the responsibility of protecting the environment could not be solely allocated onto the shoulder of an environmental scientist, but in order to preserve and safeguard the air that we breathe, the water that we drink and the land we step in, each of us the chemists, the physicists, and the biologists should strategically design our research in a more environmentally friendly manner or employing green methods.

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Sanghamitra, N.J.M. Let us go green…. Rev Environ Sci Biotechnol 9, 3–5 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11157-010-9192-9

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