Science news articles about 'rice paddies'

Acid rain from atmospheric pollution can reduce methane emissions from rice paddies by up to 24 per cent according to new research. This is potentially a beneficial side effect of the high pollution ...

... on rice as a staple food, but production is dropping in the rice paddies of Bangladesh, parts of India and South and East Asia due to toxic levels of arsenic in the topsoil. Om ...

... on rice as a staple food, but production is dropping in the rice paddies of Bangladesh, parts of India and South and East Asia due to toxic levels of arsenic in the topsoil. Om ...

... insects in the field every year. One of the worst, the rice water weevil, is a Southeast Texas native ... great strides - many of them splashing through rice paddies to scour grassy pinnacles and seed ...

The devastating effect of blast fungus on rice paddies worldwide could be dampened by the discovery of a gene that makes plants resistant.

... will be comparing functions and organizations. " The strains, two isolated from rice paddies in Taiwan, one in a rice paddy in India, and three others from the deep ocean, are related, but each one ...

... in several million metric tons of additional methane in the atmosphere. Methane is produced by wetlands, rice paddies, cattle, and the gas and coal industries, and is destroyed by reaction with the ...

... Europe began to alter world climate by pumping significant amounts of greenhouse gases — methane from terraced rice paddies and carbon dioxide from burning forests — into the atmosphere. In turn, a ...

... that contaminants from intensive agriculture being carried out close to the Park are the main threat in this Biosphere Reserve and are already affecting the Puebla del Rio and Matochal rice paddies...