Despite rice being the staple food for more than half of the world's population, its cultivation remains highly ...

Despite being the primary food for more than half of the world's population, rice cultivation is very resource-intensive, ...

Science reveals how rice crops can resist heat for better yields and quality, and how building codes work against hurricanes.

Drought- and salt-resistant rice varieties are being developed in India as part of fascinating gene-editing work.

Vermont’s farmers are growing crops that better suit the state’s warmer and wetter climate — and branching into products that ...

Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ancient and well-travelled grain.