In November 2013, skies were smoky in northwestern India as farmers burned leftover crop residue.
Land Fires
Since 2003, the number of November crop fires in northern India has increased significantly.
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As they do every fall, farmers in northern India burned crop residue following the harvest.
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With ice still on the Angara River, farmers in Russia began preparing their fields for the coming growing season.
Many farmers in India set fire to their fields to clear them before planting, a practice known as stubble burning.
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Fires
In the Amur region of Russia, spring means farmers burn their fields to prep for the coming season.
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Crop fires have cast a pall of smoke over the state of Punjab.
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Scores of agricultural fires burned in the northwest Indian states of Punjab and Haryana on November 3, 2008.
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