Rice feeds the world—but it uses more water and emits more methane than any other crop. Jim Whitaker and his daughter, Jessica Whitaker Allen, are changing that on their Arkansas family farm. Jim ...
Vietnam, a major rice exporter, is aiming to transform its farming techniques by reducing its emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas. Rice paddies generate methane due to flooded conditions inhibiting ...
From the paddy fields of India to supermarket shelves, Tilda is fine-tuning an environmental strategy that has appeal across ...
To achieve sustainable rice production and food security in the region, farmers in six Asian countries have used nuclear derived climate-smart agricultural practices and significantly increased their ...
High tech and age-old agricultural traditions are being used to reverse the decline in one of Japan’s top rice-growing regions. More than four centuries of agricultural tradition are at risk of coming ...
Changes to farming practices in rice paddies in China may have led to a decrease in methane emissions, and an observed decline in the rate that methane has entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the last ...
Archaeological discoveries often surface as fragments, leaving researchers to reconstruct stories from scattered traces. The ...
The world’s emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, are increasing rapidly, and rice farming produces around 12% of these emissions. After identifying the organic compounds rice plants secrete ...
CROWLEY, LA. (KLFY) — Rice season is in full swing in South Louisiana, where third-generation farmer Eric Unkel is navigating his 30th rice season. As Unkel’s second harvest of the season is ...