{"id":3968,"date":"2026-09-20T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2026-09-20T17:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T09:13:15","slug":"smog-from-crop-straw-burning-hits-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/smog-from-crop-straw-burning-hits-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Smog from Crop Straw Burning Hits Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Air quality in India is rapidly deteriorating, and the capital, Delhi, has officially entered the autumn season of pollution caused by crop straw burning. Concentrated burning of rice straw in farmlands across Punjab and Haryana has released large amounts of pollutants, including fine particulate matter and nitrogen oxides, with the smoke being carried by northerly winds toward Delhi\u2019s urban areas. Delhi\u2019s average PM2.5 level has reached 112 micrograms per cubic meter, exceeding 150 micrograms per cubic meter in some suburban areas\u2014nearly three times higher than a week ago\u2014classifying the air quality as \u201cheavily polluted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air quality in India is rapidly deteriorating, and the capital, Delhi, has officially entered the autumn season of pollution caused by crop straw burning. Concentrated burning of rice straw in farmlands across Punjab and Haryana has released large amounts of pollutants, including fine particulate matter and nitrogen oxides, with the smoke being carried by northerly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"views":23,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3970,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions\/3970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}