Pakistan’s Punjab records 4.2 times more crop-fire detections than Indian Punjab: report

LAHORE: Crop-fire detections in Pakistan’s Punjab were 4.2 times higher than in Indian Punjab during the first 29 days of October, according to satellite data, as the province grapples with worsening smog. According to an analysis published by environmental monitoring website HamariHawa , Nasa satellites detected 13,241 fire spots in Pakistan’s Punjab between October 1 and 29, compared with 3,158 in Indian Punjab — 4.2 times as many detections. The report, based on data from Nasa’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), collected through VIIRS instruments aboard the Suomi…