Officials say satellites are the only way to monitor farm fires since they capture a much larger area. India's space agency procures data from two orbiting NASA satellites that pass over the northern ...

Fixing the viability and sustainability crisis in India’s farms requires a more broad-based political dialogue among all stakeholders ...

Residents in India's northern states woke up to another day of poor air quality, as a layer of dense fog shrouded most of the ...

In a bid to tackle the pervasive issue of polluting farm fires, India's government has announced a strategic ... Currently, data from NASA satellites is used to monitor farm fires in Punjab and ...

No one anticipated that an initiative to save groundwater by delaying the annual rice season would aggravate northern India’s ...

STORY: Farmers here used to burn paddy stubble to clear their fields.But in this tiny village in India's Punjab, farmers are ...

India's government plans to clamp down on polluting farm fires by measuring the areas burnt instead of live blazes, after ...

India plans to count toxic farm fires by monitoring the burnt area they leave rather than the current method of using orbiting satellites to measure live fires.

operating a tractor fitted with a baler in Punjab's Moga district, to showcase an eco-friendly farming practice. The ...

As the air quality in the national capital was reported to be in 'very poor' category with a thin layer of smog, the stubble ...

STORY: Expectant mother Varsha Jain says she stays indoors in New Delhi to avoid breathing the toxic smog covering Northern ...

Pakistani authorities announced that schools would reopen Wednesday in Punjab, the country's most populated province, after a drop in dangerous air pollution.