Shamita Harsh, Author at Let Me Breathe

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#WeForNature Building A Clean Future Pollution Stories Premium Stories Video

Picture that drain full of hair in the bathroom or the corner in your room where all of your dog (or cat) fur accumulates. Where does all of that hair and fur go? Typically, it will end up in a landfill. But what if we told you that your hair could save oil spills and […]

By Shamita Harsh

08 Jul 2022

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Air Pollution Climate Change

Parents of the World are documenting testimonies of people witnessing the impacts of air pollution on their children

If you sit down to Google – What will the world look like when your child is middle-aged? Or when their children are middle-aged? – you would come up with some murky answers. Parents across the world are having a hard time picturing major events in their child’s life against the projected global-temperature increase. Even […]

By Shamita Harsh

13 Nov 2021

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Climate Change COP26

The sirens are sounding and our planet is telling us something: UN Secretary-General António Guterres at COP26 World Leaders Summit

“We are digging our own graves,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened with a hard-hitting address at the COP26 World Leaders Summit. Citing the past six years since the Paris Climate Agreement as the six hottest years on record, he lamented the need to cut back and reconsider our choices while relying on non-renewable sources of […]

By Shamita Harsh

01 Nov 2021

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Air Pollution Pollution Stories

Project Surya: A woman-centric approach to clean air

How can 3 billion people living in underdeveloped nations breathe cleaner air? Project Surya investigates reliable and sustainable cooking stoves to bring a social intervention that can give women the clean cooking solutions they need. Nearly 3 billion people in low- and middle-income countries rely on traditional cookstoves fuelled by biomass, such as wood and […]

By Shamita Harsh

05 Sep 2020

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Air Pollution Pollution Stories

Beyond Blaming Farmers, A Stubble Burning Solution by IIT Ropar

Tired of blaming farmers for burning stubble and the subsequent pollution that chokes northern parts of India? A group of researchers at IIT Ropar bring a stubble removal machine that can probably help pave the way for a more sustainable solution for the harvest season's menace- stubble burning.

By Shamita Harsh

04 Sep 2020

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