Ozone pollution puts essential crops in peril reveals new study

Category : Pollution | Location : National  | Posted on 2025-04-29 11:51:44

The world’s essential food grains wheat, rice and maize are facing a silent threat from escalating surface ozone pollution. A groundbreaking study by Professor Jayanarayanan Kuttippurath and his team at the Centre for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL), IIT Kharagpur, has sounded the alarm on a growing but under-recognised threat to India’s food security: surface ozone pollution.

Source: https://www.newindianexpress.com/explainers/2025/Apr/25/ozone-pollution-puts-essential-crops-in-peril-reveals-new-study