Rice plants are a big source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Scientists just developed a strain that cuts those emissions by 70 percent.

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 ...

The poor things can’t help it, but cows are really gassy, and that’s really bad for the planet ... Growing rice requires flooding fields, called paddies, with staggering quantities of water.

Paddy farmers ... a shortage of rice in the market and the Government was finally forced to import rice from India to solve the problem. A couple of weeks ago, after visiting the Alikota Ara reservoir ...

Lucy has called four different countries—on four different continents—home. But things like climate, healthcare, and ease of ...

It’s getting hotter — and more expensive to stay cool — in the island nation. Will it become the first in Southeast Asia to ...

I didn’t realize how bad it was until the MRI,” Rice said. “I always see myself as tough—just as tough as any wide receiver can be. When it happened, I figured I was just banged up and would sit out ...

Joe Tacheny remembers the day his older brothers went to war. They were among several dozen young men from Litchfield and surrounding area who boarded a troop train on a brutally cold night in ...

Peck said it was not too bad, still managing to walk out with a medic at his side ... On January 6, his division was hit by an ambush as they walked through a rice paddy field. “We heard a shot,” Peck ...

In place of water-soaked rice paddies, the soil is parched and cracked. The amount of rainfall by Aug. 23 at nine of 17 primary observation points in the prefecture was less than 10 percent of an ...

Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman Ke'Bryan Hayes is optimistic he's got a firm grasp on how to deal with the back problems ...

In 2017, as part of the Save Our Rice campaign, a movement spearheaded by Kerala-based nonprofit organisation, Thanal, Lakshmikutty co-edited a 180-page report on the evolution of paddy cultivation ...