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Shanella Ramkissoon

Shanella Ramkissoon is a Masters in Environment and Sustainability candidate. Her background is in the field of Environmental Science and Environment and Resource Management. Her interests lie in environmental conservation, especially for marine species such as coral reefs, turtles and dolphins. In her free time, she enjoys landscape photography, baking and art and craft projects.

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crosswalk

Imagine you’re walking through the city, mask-clad, on the streets which slowly started becoming alive as lockdown restrictions were being lifted. With a long stretch of road ahead of you,...
The Week This Friday

This is not good.SOURCE: Flickr, By Nikita HengbokAccording to the Independent, while we have studied the impacts of air pollution on human health in great depth, we haven’t really done...

Imagine you’re sitting reading a good book or watching your favourite tv shows for hours. You’ve potentially breathed in 11 pieces of microplastics per hour. Despite indoor air having a...
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Dear 2099 Self,The year 2020 was always portrayed as being futuristic with many advancements for society. Yet here we are now in what seems to be a never-ending pandemic while...
Small Steps to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint Can be One Giant Leap for Mankind by

Whether we like it or not, our daily activities increase our carbon footprint. A carbon footprint is the measure of greenhouse gas emissions (including carbon) that a person emits from...
TWTF

Give Me A BrakeTraffic jam in Dhaka, Bangladesh // Source: The New York TimesWe tend to take air conditioning (AC) for granted. Even in our cars, we can drive around...
no planet B

 (Volume 5 of 5 of Plastic Free July Series)“We did not inherit the Earth from our ancestors - we borrow it from our children”– First Nations of Turtle Island proverbThe...
The Week This Friday

This is the Week This Friday! This is the Week This Friday! 6 quick-and-smart briefs about happenings in the environmental space!  Eastern Tropical Pacific Coral Reefs Adapting to Heat StressSource: Yale...
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Plastic Free July Series (Volume 4 of 5) Plastic Free July Series (Volume 4 of 5)Environmental policy and social activism go hand in hand with ending the plastic problem. While people have...
plastic food

Plastics should be a food group all on its own since most of the food we eat contain micro- and nanoplastics. Whether we like it to or not, plastics have...

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