Toxic smog gripping New Delhi grew more intense on Thursday as farm fires raged in nearby fields despite a court-ordered ban, making India's capital the world's most polluted city again.
There were more than 2,500 farm fires in Punjab state on Wednesday, north of Delhi, as farmers defied a Supreme Court-ordered ban on crop residue burning and the local police warned of legal action against them, The Indian Express newspaper reported.
This is a really intractable problem. I don’t know what they are going to do.
This is a really intractable problem. I don’t know what they are going to do.
That air quality is going to cost lives.
It does. Imagine people with Asthma or COPD. Their deaths are not going to be attributed to pollution.
Exactly. Fires like these can probably give people COPD.