Since 2003, the number of November crop fires in northern India has increased significantly.
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Agricultural fires burn across Punjab, India, as farmers prepare for the growing season.
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As they do every fall, farmers in northern India burned crop residue following the harvest.
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Hundreds of fires are clustered in northwest India in this natural-color image from October 26, 2010.
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In late-October and November, farmers in northern India burn off crop debris, a practice known as stubble burning.
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Crop fires have cast a pall of smoke over the state of Punjab.
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With ice still on the Angara River, farmers in Russia began preparing their fields for the coming growing season.
Scores of agricultural fires burned in the northwest Indian states of Punjab and Haryana on November 3, 2008.
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In November 2013, skies were smoky in northwestern India as farmers burned leftover crop residue.
The Top End region of Australia faced a busy start to the bushfire season in 2017.
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