When the Fields Breathe Fire | Human Geography Blog 🔥 Environmental Geography · GEO296 When the Fields Breathe Fire Stubble burning, air quality, and the human cost of Punjab's winter haze Human Geography Blog Academic Task 01 · GEO296 Abstract Every October and November, Punjab's skies turn a sickly grey — not from factories alone, but from millions of farmers torching paddy stubble to clear their fields before the wheat season. This blog explores the geography, ecology, and human dimensions of stubble burning across Punjab's Malwa, Doaba, and Majha plains, tracing how a local agricultural practice becomes a regional air‑quality catastrophe. Using NASA satellite data, CPCB indices, and field narratives, it argues that stubble burning is not simply an environmental crime — it is a symptom of broken policy, spatial inequality, and climate injustice with global parallels in Indonesia a...