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New Delhi smog grows more intense as farm fires rage (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/news

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[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hope the fires stop soon

[–] tesseract 2 points 1 year ago

This isn't a wild fire. This is intentionally done by farmers to prepare their land for the next crop. The farmers know that the smoke is choking and killing people in Delhi. But they don't care because the winds carry the smoke away from them. There is a ban imposed by the courts against this. And they still don't care.