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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi

India trials Delhi cloud seeding to clean air in world’s most polluted city

Silhouettes of people and monkeys walk past India Gate amid smoggy conditions in Delhi
People and monkeys walk past India Gate during smoggy conditions in Delhi this week. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

The Delhi regional government is trialling a cloud-seeding experiment to induce artificial rain, in an effort to clean the air in the world’s most polluted city.

The Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has been proposing the use of cloud seeding as a way to bring Delhi’s air pollution under control since it was elected to lead the regional government this year.

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