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Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a ...
Rice, the most widely consumed grain in the world, is likely to become increasingly toxic as global temperatures and carbon ...
Despite its critical importance, rice has seen very little venture investment to drive yields and cut emissions, says Azolla ...
SOMEWHERE along the way, brown rice got a health halo – while its white counterpart was cast as the villain. And in some ways ...
"This is as robust as you’re ever likely to get." Getty Images In flooded rice paddies, anaerobic bacteria in the soil turn to arsenic due to the lack of oxygen (Credit: Getty Images) Humans ...
New research has found that brown rice has a higher concentration of arsenic than white rice in the U.S.—affirming decades of ...
Warming temperatures and rising CO2 are making rice more toxic, researchers say, with millions potentially being at risk by 2050.
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Rice, the world’s most consumed grain, will become increasingly toxic as the atmosphere heats and as carbon dioxide emissions ...
Nearly 17% of the world's croplands are contaminated with "heavy metals," according to a new study in Science. These ...
Wading through rice paddies across the Yangtze Delta, they sought to find out just how projected temperatures and levels of atmospheric CO2 in 2050 would interact with the arsenic in the soil and ...
Because rice is grown in paddies flooded with water, any arsenic present in soil can be readily absorbed into the rice—at levels 10 times higher than other grains, which are grown differently.