A new traffic plan has contributed to improved air quality in Chandni Chowk, a popular tourist destination in Delhi.

The skies are a permanent orange-gray, buildings a mile away disappear behind the toxic smog, and residents’ eyes water and throats burn from simply being outside. The air is killing us all. What will it take to get India to tackle its perpetual pollution problem?

Amid Delhi’s ongoing pollution struggle, garbage fires and open burning incidents spiked by a significant 38% in Oct and Nov, compared to the same period last year.

Jedes Jahr leidet die indische Hauptstadt zu Beginn des Winters unter Smog und Rauch. Zwar gibt es praktikable Lösungen für das Problem. Aber es braucht auch politischen Willen.

Every year when winter arrives, India's capital region is choked by smog and smoke. Experts say there are already solutions waiting to be implemented, but more political will is needed to clear the air

Delhi’s chronic air pollution is the result of a mix of geography, industry, vehicles, power plants and seasonal stubble-burning — but experts say the city could still become breathable if long-term policies are backed by political will.

This “hazardous” situation has emerged due to our inability to curb pollution from perennial sources, an air quality scientist told The Wire.

Every year when winter arrives, India's capital region is choked by smog and smoke. Experts say there are already solutions waiting to be implemented, but more political will is needed to clear the air.

The toxic smog cloaking New Delhi in recent weeks has been smothering its 20 million or so residents with dangerous pollution but breathing life into debate about whether the city can remain India's capital.

Cleanest air recorded this year in Delhi was on 13 September, when AQI touched 52. Levels of ultrafine particulate matter or PM2.5 are increasing every year.

As winter sets in across north India – usually around the time of the country’s biggest festival, Diwali – the air in Delhi becomes thick and brown with visible pollutants. To breathe in is to taste toxic fumes. The visibility is often so bad that famous monuments are reduced to smoky blurs on the horizon. It is, as one writer once put it, as if a burial shroud has cloaked the city.

Political deadlock, fragmented efforts and citizen apathy have led to the country’s pollution crisis

Over the past four years, at least three key studies aimed at real-time pollution source identification have either been halted or rendered obsolete.

Most of India’s coal-burning plants are set to again fall short of a major pollution target, adding to the deadly smog that’s enveloped large parts of the country.

Delhi experienced worse-than-predicted air quality, with 'severe' to 'severe plus' AQI levels despite forecasts of 'very poor'. The forecasting system's inaccuracy, attributed to factors like unanticipated firecracker emissions from weddings, highlights the need for more robust and reliable pollution prediction models.

Delhi experienced worse-than-predicted air quality, with 'severe' to 'severe plus' AQI levels despite forecasts of 'very poor'. The forecasting system's inaccuracy, attributed to factors like unanticipated firecracker emissions from weddings, highlights the need for more robust and reliable pollution prediction models.

Experts called on the government to focus on controlling pollution at source and not undertake experiments without proven scientific efficacy