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

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 ...

A new study, appearing in Nature Genetics and led by researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST ...

The process that takes the grain from the fields to the table doesn’t end with the harvest. The farmer must dry it and pass ...

Bahraich , Five workers died allegedly after inhaling smoke emanating from a dryer machine that malfunctioned at a rice mill here on Friday, officials said. Three other workers, who fainted after ...

Rice already contains arsenic, a naturally occurring toxin. But climate change is supercharging the danger with hotter, ...