{"id":72653,"date":"2025-06-27T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/jun\/27\/pollutionwatch-fires-delhi-post-monsoon-smog-air"},"modified":"2025-06-27T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T05:00:07","slug":"how-farm-fires-intensify-delhis-post-monsoon-smog-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72653","title":{"rendered":"How farm fires intensify Delhi\u2019s post-monsoon smog problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme air pollution from farming fires meets high population density, causing substantial harm to health<\/p>\n<p>The post-monsoon period in Delhi has become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/22\/the-air-is-killing-us-why-delhi-india-pollution-problem-runs-deeper-than-smog-season\">time of smog<\/a>. In November, the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/18\/pollution-in-delhi-hits-record-high-cloaking-city-in-hazardous-smog\">pollution index reached its highest levels<\/a>, classified as \u201csevere plus\u201d, cloaking the city in thick, brown smog and forcing schools and offices to close.<\/p>\n<p>Prof <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psi.ch\/en\/lac\/people\/andre-prevot\">Andre Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t<\/a>, of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psi.ch\/en\/lac\/people\/andre-prevot\">Paul Scherrer Institute<\/a>, who led a group of scientists investigating the causes, said: \u201cThe visibility drops drastically \u2013 often to just a few hundred metres \u2013 and it feels as if standing in a heavy soup of pollution.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/jun\/27\/pollutionwatch-fires-delhi-post-monsoon-smog-air\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme air pollution from farming fires meets high population density, causing substantial harm to healthThe post-monsoon period in Delhi has become a time of smog. In November, the city\u2019s pollution index reached its highest levels, classified as \u201csev&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[722,353,65,653,346,62,466,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-delhi","category-environment","category-farming","category-health","category-india","category-pollution","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72654,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72653\/revisions\/72654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}