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Photos: Delhi’s Toxic Sky (20 photos)

Millions of people in Delhi, India, and neighboring states are struggling to cope with eye-watering smog that has settled on the region—creating some of the worst air quality in years. Government authorities have declared a public health emergency, closing schools, halting construction, and restricting cars to an “even-odd” system, based on their license plates, to try and halve the number of vehicles on the roads. The toxic stew filling the air comes from a combination of vehicular and industrial emissions and smoke from the seasonal burning of rice paddy stubble on farms in nearby states.

This combination of images shows tourists visiting India Gate in New Delhi on a clear day, November 4, 2019, (left), and tourists visiting the same spot under heavy smog conditions the day before (right), on November 3, 2019. ( Sajjad Hussain / AFP / Getty)
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/11/photos-delhis-toxic-sky/601357/