In all of the holiday hubbub, you may have missed these stories about the awful air pollution plaguing Indian cities like New Delhi. While a lot of the recent record-setting high particulate levels have been coming from a dust storm, normal traffic, cooking and other fuel use dumps massive number of unhealthy particles into the air, causing breathing problems for local residents. Here are some stories about the pollution.
BBC: New Delhi residents panic as ‘deadly smog’ reappears
Scroll.in: Dust storm in West Asia set of Delhi smog, says report by air quality monitoring agency
Quartz.com:
Breathing New Delhi’s air right now is the equivalent of smoking 45 cigarettes a day
