Rice is a staple food for billions of people around the planet, but a new study suggests climate change may increase arsenic ...

Rice fields across India host a variety of wild, edible plants that Indigenous communities value for their nutritional and medicinal properties. But these “weeds” are rapidly disappearing.

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

"Rice yield loss was most severe when ... considering effective weed control options decline once weeds become established in a field," says King. "Although not assessed in this study, the ...

but manual weeding has become challenging due to a shortage of workers, Lo said. The station began to use paper film to cover organic rice fields in 2023, he said, showing a photograph in which rice ...

Once rice seeds have been planted by a drone, a succession of robotic technologies still to be developed would deal with weeding and reaping ... growing number of fields left vacant by ...