The poor things can’t help it, but cows are really gassy, and that’s really bad for the planet: Microbes in their guts produce methane — a greenhouse gas up to 80 times more powerful than carbon ...

Nitrogen rich soils in China’s rice paddies could help farmers grow the same amount of rice with less fertilizer, if we can ...

Scientists tested rice under record heatwaves and found that hotter soils by themselves did not cause dangerous spikes in arsenic or metals.

A team of scientists has shown that rice paddies in two of China's most important grain producing regions release soil nitrogen in strikingly ...

Doctoral student Frank Linam explores how wet soil conditions in flooded rice paddies affect the way roots take in nutrients and filter out toxins More than 3 billion people around the world eat rice ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli company has developed a drip irrigation system for growing rice to replace the flooded paddies that have supplied the world with rice for generations but cause a ...