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 ...

Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on wildlife, science and the environment. Robyn joined Newsweek in 2022 having previously worked at environmental ...

Reasons to be Cheerful reports on how rice farmers have changed strategies to work with migratory birds, enhancing their ...

Making “cultivated” meat by growing chicken or beef cells in a bioreactor isn’t easy or cheap. Startups in the space are struggling to scale up production. But new research suggests that instead of ...

Cooking rice like pasta, with lots of water that's drained, can cut down arsenic levels by over 50 percent. Choosing white ...

We’re in the pink. Korean scientists have come up with an astonishing new type of lab-grown rice — one packed with animal protein. The rose-tinted spectacle has hungry tongues wagging in the ...

The severe flooding in South-East Asia, coupled with weak demand and oversupply in the global market, may disrupt rice ...