Every autumn, as the rice harvest ends across northern India, a thick, acrid pall of smoke settles over the Indo-Gangetic Plains, degrading air quality for tens of millions of people and repeatedly pushing cities such as Delhi into hazardous air territory. The immediate culprit is paddy straw: vast quantities of tough, silica-rich residue that farmers […]
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