A cold, dry part of Chile might not sound like the best place to grow rice, a famously thirsty grain that thrives in tropical ...

Rice, the world’s most consumed grain, will become increasingly toxic as the atmosphere heats and as carbon dioxide emissions ...

But producing rice typically emits a lot of methane – a powerful global warming gas. The methane is produced by microorganisms that thrive in the flooded fields where rice is grown. They break down ...

The team didn’t look at just any rice, but some of the grain varieties most produced and consumed worldwide. After nearly a decade of observing and analyzing the growth of the plants ...

India, Vietnam, and China are among the group of eight nations that lead the rest of the world in rice exports. After nearly a decade of observing and analyzing the growth of the plants ...

These bacteria then facilitate reactions with other minerals in the soil that make the arsenic more bioavailable and easier for the rice plants to absorb through their root systems. "When you ...