Rice plants are a big source of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas. Scientists just developed a strain that cuts ...

We used to grow our dinner staple in the city’s countryside, until farmers abandoned their paddies to find less back-breaking jobs with better pay. Recently though, homegrown rice has been ...

A view of the rice paddies in central Taiwan ... Hong Kong was ceded back to China in 1999 from the UK. As a special administrative region (SAR) it will retain its political and economic system ...

Rice is cultivated all over the world in fields known as rice paddies and it is one of the ... in a lot of wasted power waking and then going back to sleep again if we desire something like ...

The craft flew over a 1000-square-meter rice paddy, scattering seeds treated beforehand with powdered iron to ensure a smooth drop from the air. The seeding process took just 10 minutes.