The poor things can’t help it, but cows are really gassy, and that’s really bad for the planet: Microbes in their guts produce methane — a greenhouse gas up to 80 times more powerful than carbon ...
Doctoral student Frank Linam explores how wet soil conditions in flooded rice paddies affect the way roots take in nutrients and filter out toxins More than 3 billion people around the world eat rice ...
Nitrogen rich soils in China’s rice paddies could help farmers grow the same amount of rice with less fertilizer, if we can measure that hidden nitrogen quickly and accurately.