Toxic smog smothers New Delhi as stubble burning outside Indian capital worsens problem | South China Morning Post

New Delhi’s air quality hit more than 16 times higher than the daily safe limit set by the World Health Organization on November 10, 2021. Every winter, tens of thousands of farmers in states bordering Delhi flout laws to clear their fields by burning leftover straw to make way for new crops, a process otherwise kno…

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