Tag: Rice
Ancient DNA is revealing the genetic landscape of people who first...
Melinda A. Yang, University of Richmond
The very first human beings originally emerged in Africa before spreading across Eurasia about 60,000 years ago. After that,...
The Philippines has rated ‘Golden Rice’ safe, but farmers might not...
Glenn Davis Stone, Washington University in St Louis and Dominic Glover, Institute of Development Studies
“Golden Rice” is probably the world’s most hotly debated genetically...
Reclaiming lost calories: Tweaking photosynthesis boosts crop yields
Amanda Cavanagh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
What if your ability to feed yourself was dependent on a process that made a mistake 20 percent...
Climate change will make rice less nutritious, putting millions of the...
Kristie Ebi, University of Washington
Rice is the primary food source for more than 3 billion people around the world. Many are unable to afford...
Another problem with China’s coal: Mercury in rice
Noelle Eckley Selin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Sae Yun Kwon, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Mercury pollution is a problem usually associated with...
Should we worry about arsenic in baby cereal and drinking water?
Stuart Shalat, Georgia State University
Even though most people don’t know much about chemicals in general or poisons in particular, virtually everyone knows that arsenic...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
