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In Ghana's Weta rice belt in the Volta Region, a quiet revolution is taking root--one that promises to redefine how rice is grown in our water-stressed, warming world. Through a pioneering ...
Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ...
U.S. and India trade negotiators were pushing on Wednesday to finalise a tariff-reducing deal ahead of President Donald Trump ...
Usually at this time of year, Adakole Odaudu is at his farm to check on his crops. He normally gets up early during the ...
The area allocated to monsoon-sown rice crops has surged 47% from a year earlier to 3.5 million hectares (8.7 million acres) ...
Many of us think of rice as a plant that grows in flooded fields, and that’s because the kind of rice we’re most familiar with — the long-grain, wetland variety called lowland rice — can be considered ...
Grist reports that climate change is loading rice—the beloved grain that feeds more than half of the world's population—with increasing amounts of arsenic, creating a "scary" health burden.
Grist reports that climate change is loading rice-the beloved grain that feeds more than half of the world’s population-with increasing amounts of arsenic, creating a “scary” health burden.
Grist reports that climate change is loading rice—the beloved grain that feeds more than half of the world's population—with increasing amounts of arsenic, creating a "scary" health burden.
Letter From They Paved Fields of Rice and Put Up a Solar Panel Lot Along the Gulf Coast, solar farms are displacing a water-hungry and increasingly untenable crop. Some residents don't have a ...
Back in 2014, Wang and an international team of climate, plant, and public health scientists started working together on a research project that would end up taking them close to a decade to complete.