{"id":198513,"date":"2025-10-27T12:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/10\/27\/make-it-rain-new-delhi-trials-cloud-seeding-to-combat-deadly-smog\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:22:09","slug":"make-it-rain-new-delhi-trials-cloud-seeding-to-combat-deadly-smog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/10\/27\/make-it-rain-new-delhi-trials-cloud-seeding-to-combat-deadly-smog\/","title":{"rendered":"Make it rain: New Delhi trials cloud seeding to combat deadly smog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>New Delhi could see artificial rain fall over the Indian capital for the first time later this week.\u00a0The regional government is trialling a cloud-seeding experiment to induce artificial rain in a bid to bring the city&rsquo;s severe air pollution under control.\u00a0New Delhi is regularly ranked among the world&rsquo;s most polluted capitals.\u00a0Last week, after days of fireworks to celebrate Diwali, particulate matter levels rose to more than 56 times the safe limit. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Environment Editor Val\u00e9rie Dekimpe tells us more.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi could see artificial rain fall over the Indian capital for the first time later this week.\u00a0The regional government is trialling a cloud-seeding experiment to induce artificial rain in a bid to bring the city&rsquo;s severe air pollution under control.\u00a0New Delhi is regularly ranked among the world&rsquo;s most polluted capitals.\u00a0Last week, after days of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-198513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}