{"id":20017989,"date":"2016-03-23T04:46:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T23:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thethirdpole.net\/?p=17989"},"modified":"2021-01-08T00:37:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T19:07:53","slug":"stunning-nasa-image-of-crop-fires-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/nature\/stunning-nasa-image-of-crop-fires-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning NASA image of crop fires in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This stunning image of crop fires across India was posted by NASA on 22 March 2016, and titled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-feature\/goddard\/2016\/first-comes-fire-then-comes-crops-in-india\">First comes fire then comes crops in India<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under the image, editor Lynn Jenner noted:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Suomi NPP satellite instruments detected dozens of fires burning in India on March 22, 2016. The fires are outlined in red. Most of the fires burn in grass or cropland, which is tan in this image. The location, widespread nature, and number of fires suggest that these fires were deliberately set to manage land.\u00a0 Places where traditional plots of open land is not available because the vegetation in the area is dense are the places where &#8220;slash and burn&#8221; agriculture is practiced most often. These regions include parts of Africa, northern South America, and Southeast Asia including India where an abundance of grasslands and rainforests are found.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/geography.about.com\/od\/urbaneconomicgeography\/a\/slashburn.htm\">About.com<\/a>:\u00a0 &#8220;Slash and burn is a <a href=\"http:\/\/geography.about.com\/od\/urbaneconomicgeography\/a\/aggeography.htm\">method of agriculture<\/a> primarily used by tribal communities for subsistence farming (farming to survive). Humans have practiced this method for about 12,000 years, ever since the transition known as the Neolithic Revolution, the time when humans stopped hunting and gathering and started to stay put and grow crops. Today, between 200 and 500 million people, or up to 7% of the world\u2019s population, uses slash and burn agriculture.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Farmers often use fire to return nutrients to the soil and to clear the ground of unwanted plants. While fire helps enhance crops and grasses for pasture, the fires also produce smoke that degrades air quality. The smoke released by any type of fire (forest, brush, crop, structure, tires, waste or wood burning) is a mixture of particles and chemicals produced by incomplete burning of carbon-containing materials. All smoke contains carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and particulate matter or soot and is hazardous to breathe.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>NASA&#8217;s Suomi NPP satellite collected this natural-color image using the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) instrument.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA satellite imagery reveals broad swathes of Indian cropland on fire, as farmers clear fields through &#8220;slash and burn&#8221; farming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2194,"featured_media":20017993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[764],"tags":[50029567,14274],"hashtags":[],"country":[20000111],"class_list":["post-20017989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","tag-agroforestry","tag-air-pollution","country-india"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized 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