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Delhi’s annual air pollution has become a human-made calamity

The risk of pollution is increasing. Central and state authorities blame each other and there is a lack of political will to address the problem. Individual people seem unwilling to take responsibility and stop polluting.   By Komali Kantamaneni, University of Central Lancashire and Sigamani Panneer, Jawaharlal Nehru University   Delhi’s air pollution is so […]


Stubble burning—just a factor of agricultural ecological crises

Stubble burning by farmers in Punjab and Haryana in northwest India has been cited as a major cause of air pollution in Delhi and its surrounding region. The practice of stubble burning has it’s roots in market forced pressure on the farmers. The permanent solution for the problem and the overweening ecological crises is to go for […]