The cultivation of rice—the staple grain for more than 3.5 billion people around the world—comes with extremely high ...

Many of us think of rice as a plant that grows in flooded fields, and that’s because the kind of rice we’re most familiar with — the long-grain, wetland variety called lowland rice — can be considered ...

Rice is the daily staple for more than 3.5 billion people around the world, but producing it comes with huge costs to the ...

Rice feeds the world—but it uses more water and emits more methane than any other crop. Jim Whitaker and his daughter, Jessica Whitaker Allen, are changing that on their Arkansas family farm. About ...

One Illinois man’s decadeslong fight to convert his fields into rice paddies demonstrates how it’s possible to bring ...