Since October 1, Glades residents have once again been smothered in the smoke and ash that will plague us through the entirety of the six-to-eight-month sugar cane pre-harvest burn season.

District collectors across Maharashtra recently appealed to farmers and labourers not to burn sugar cane trash in the field during harvesting that leaves behind tonnes of ash. Burning trash is ...

Thailand's sugar ... for harvesting by burning, says the Office of the Cane and Sugar Board (OCSB). Authorities previously ordered a temporary shutdown of a sugar mill in Udon Thani after it ...