stubble burning
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Nature Notes
Burning Fields. Though the unprecedented heat has eased, the frightening intensity of it remains. Coldharbour Farm and its grain silos shimmered like a mirage in the fan-oven heat. Much of the harvest there was done before the schools broke up, and woodpigeons panted on the sticky tarmac, where even the water leaks had dried up. […]
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Nature Notes
A Society of Sparrows and Harvest, or, The Smell of Burning Fields … We are once again at peak sparrow. When the combine harvester begins its wide turn into Home Field, their reporting of the event almost drowns out its roar. We hear the great machine’s billion-bee buzz, accompanied by its flotilla of header and […]