Greenpeace analysis ranks global SO2 air pollution hotspots

New Delhi, India – Power plants and industries burning coal and oil are responsible for two-thirds of the anthropogenic sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission hotspots tracked by NASA satellites, according to a Greenpeace India analysis. Oil refineries and metals smelters are...

Villages of Widows in Madhya Pradesh’s Panna District

Panna: In the extreme summer heat, 35-year-old Mithali Adiwasi of Manjha village is seated outside her mud house, cleaning lice from her four-year-old daughter’s hair. A mother of two girls, Mithali is worried how to feed them. Early in the morning, she had gone to...