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Since last century or so anthropogenic activities have intensely metamorphosed the earth’s ecosystem and resulted into major environmental changes. Widespread interference of human related activities have resulted in major problems including environmental pollution, land degradation, global warming/climate change, paucity of potable water supply and biodiversity loss. These issues have directly affected the quality and sustainability of the ecosystems. In addition, these activities have resulted in loss of habitats resulting in mass extinction of species which in itself is a matter of great concern. Studies and data clearly show that if present trends continue the conditions are expected to worsen in the coming time and human civilization itself will be in trouble. To minimize this crisis, possible green solutions like use of microbes and biotechnological tools are gaining importance and need further attention in order to lessen or remediate the harmful effects of anthropogenic activities thus ensuring environmental sustainability.

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(Source Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC), Consultancy.uk analysis 2017)

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(Source Boden et al. 2017)

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(Source IPCC 2007)

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Data source: Munns and Tester (2008); Yan et al. (2008); FAO (2008); UNPD 2017; https://www.statista.com/chartoftheday/ (2018)

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Data source: FAO (2013)

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(Source EM-DAT, CRED-Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (2018), University of Louvain, Belgium)

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Adopted from NEAA (2010)

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(Data source Markets and Markets (http://news.agropages.com/News/NewsDetail—21111.htm) Cox and Wong (2013); http://www.prnewswire.com/; https://www.bccresearch.com/)

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  1. Department of Environmental Sciences, School for Environmental Sciences, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226025, India

    Naveen Kumar Arora

  2. Department of Environmental Microbiology, School for Environmental Sciences, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226025, India

    Tahmish Fatima, Isha Mishra & Maya Verma

  3. DST Policy Centre, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226025, India

    Jitendra Mishra

  4. King George Medical University, Lucknow, 226001, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Vaibhav Mishra

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Arora, N.K., Fatima, T., Mishra, I. et al. Environmental sustainability: challenges and viable solutions. Environmental Sustainability 1, 309–340 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42398-018-00038-w

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