Although intentional use of fires to transform land has decreased globally (1, 2), particularly
among highly capitalized countries through regulatory and market-oriented approaches and …

The international community has failed repeatedly to prevent large-scale environmental
catastrophes driven by perverse land-use practices in the tropics. Haze pollution in …

Biomass burning from forest regions and agriculture crop residues can emit substantial
amounts of particulate matter and other pollutants into the atmosphere. An inventory of …

Combine harvesting technologies, which have become common in RWS (rice–wheat
system) in India, leave behind large quantities of straw in the field for open burning of …

Canada, Australia, and regions of South America, Eurasia, and Africa (4). Given that Earth's
climate continues to warm and that historical land use and fire suppression activities have …

Crop residues are subjected to open burning in Indonesia. These farming practices were
studied to determine the proportion of open burned and their contribution to air pollution …

Fire profoundly influences people, climate, and ecosystems (1). The impacts of this
interaction are likely to grow, with climate models forecasting widespread increases in fire …

The US renewable energy initiative (1) announced in the 2006 presidential State of the
Union address (2) has given new impetus to the identification of biofuel crops as sources of …

Globally, wildfire size, severity, and frequency have been increasing, as have related
fatalities and taxpayer-funded firefighting costs. In most accessible forests, wildfire response …

Fire is an important process for recycling dead biomass in the arid west, where natural
decomposition rates are extremely slow (historical repeat photography has shown untreated …