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 ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over part of the Mekong Delta – a major rice-producing region in southwest Vietnam. In Vietnam, rice has been a strategic crop for national food security.

The abundance of rainfall this past winter was a welcome reprieve from the five to six drops California seemed to be getting on average the past many years. Perhaps one of the biggest impacts the ...

generations, the image of rice farming has remained largely unchanged: emerald fields standing in ankle-deep water, seedlings transplanted into flooded paddies, the soil permanently submerged. But ...