Oindrila Bhattacharyya, Author at Let Me Breathe

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Climate Change Plastic Pollution Waste & Recycling

Earth is drowning in plastic: What can you do?

Do you ever think of the plastic bag you used as a free and painless solution for carrying your groceries? No? It's killing the planet

By Oindrila Bhattacharyya

15 Apr 2021

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Air Pollution Pollution Stories

Green Diwali Or a Grey One?

Diwali is a festival of lights and happiness. But when we burn firecrackers during this festival we invite our own death. This is so because air pollution by burning crackers leads to chronic respiratory diseases like lung cancer and even COVID. The pollution from firecrackers is harmful for COVID patients as well as people who […]

By Oindrila Bhattacharyya

02 Nov 2020

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Forest & Biodiversity

Unnecessary felling of trees for electric lines work

While forest and vast ecology gets destroyed every moment of the day, there are also certain small green spots that might not be as attractive and appealing as those but certainly play a role in purifying are most polluting cities. These are the most threatened and there is no activity or movement or campaign to […]

By Oindrila Bhattacharyya

29 Oct 2020

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Forest & Biodiversity

Depleting mangroves of Visakhapatnam

Frequent cyclones and devastative beach erosion in the city points out clearly the absence of the city barrier i.e. Visakhapatnam mangroves which once protected the city from these catastrophes. These Mangroves plantation was once found in abundance near the Naval Dockyard extending up to Meghadrigedda reservoir on the rear-side of the airport. According to a […]

By Oindrila Bhattacharyya

08 Oct 2020

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Forest & Biodiversity

Tree Transplantation in Visakhapatnam

Urban areas are seeing deforestation on large scale destroying homes of birds and animals and also removing the purifiers of polluted city air. Over the last 30 years, forests nearly two-thirds the size of Haryana have been lost to encroachments (15,000 sq km) and 23,716 industrial projects (14,000 sq km), according to government data (2016), and […]

By Oindrila Bhattacharyya

05 Oct 2020

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