Bio-Briquettes Tackle India’s Climate, Pollution & Poverty Challenges
Surjeet Kaur is a 38-year-old farmer whose family has tilled land for generations in Patiala district in the Indian state...
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If Stubble Burning Ended In Dec, Why Is Delhi’s AQI Still ‘Severe’?
Although the days when parali (stubble) burning in the neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana was blamed solely for rising...
Air Pollution: Scale Up Monitoring, Stop Adhoc Mgmt, Factor In Health
A familiar curtain of toxic smog enveloped the National Capital Region (NCR) and its neighbouring areas in the last week...
Air Pollution: Delhi Gasps For Breath As Haze Persists On 5th Day
Although the concentration of poisonous PM2.5 was still over 80 times the healthy limit prescribed by the World Health Organisation...
‘Environment Protectors’: Punjab Move To Curb Stubble Burning
In a bid to stop stubble burning, the Gurdaspur district administration in Punjab has implemented a novel idea. Now, those...
MP’s Stubble Burning Problem Goes Unnoticed
For the past few decades, crop residue burning has been the grim news story of the state of Punjab. The...
Stubble Burning Damages Soil Fertility, Impacts Environment In MP
Farmers of Madhya Pradesh’s Narmadapuram (previously Hoshangabad) district were expecting a good produce of wheat crop this year. But they...
MP 2nd In Stubble Burning, Farmers Unaware Of Govt Schemes
Madhya Pradesh ranks second in the country in terms of wheat production, which is a matter of pride for the...
Divided By Borders, Lahore & Delhi Are United In Smog
The sister cities of Lahore, in Pakistan, and New Delhi, in India, share many things – food, culture, and now...
Stubble Burning Is Back, Smothering The North
Even as authorities claim that they are all set to deal with what is now an annual public health crisis,...
Decision On Odd-Even Extension To Be Taken On Monday: Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said a final call on extending the odd-even scheme would be taken on Monday as...
Fields Of Fire Drive Delhi’s Air Quality To Unhealthy Levels
When it comes to air quality, there are few worse places to live on the planet than New Delhi, and...
Delhi’s Air Quality ‘Very Poor’ Again, Likely To Decline Sharply Over Weekend
The national capital's air quality slipped into the "very poor" category on Friday morning, and was expected to decline sharply...
