The link between crop burning and respiratory illness is a health and economic timebomb (The Telegraph)

Telegraph published an op-ed by Research Fellows Samuel Scott and Avinash Kishore as well as Senior Research Fellow Devesh Roy who called attention to respiratory infections being the leading cause of chronic disease in children globally and of death in developing countries. The article explored the first-of-its-kind study linking crop residue burning and acute respiratory infection, estimating its economic and health costs.