During the night of 2 May 2008, Cyclone Nargis barreled across Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady delta, flattening homes and...
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Forecasting changes in climate has always been a complex task. However, with the development of new regional...
Climate change has often been blamed for unusual weather phenomena, especially the extreme cases. But then again,...
Norman Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, about 25 years after he began working to...
For much of the past three decades, the remote uplands of Southeast Asia and Indochina have...
In sub-Saharan Africa, rice is one of the most significant crops—as both a food and cash crop....
The temperate regions of the world lie between the Arctic Circle and Tropic of Cancer, and the...
Often hailed as the “queen” of rice, Thailand’s Jasmine variety has reigned over many consumers’ palates because...
New rice varieties have revolutionized rice production around the world. Despite devastating stresses attributed to climate change,...
