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Soaring prices, empty shelves as Japan’s rice crisis worsens
Japan is taking the rare steps of turning to imports and releasing part of its emergency stockpile of the grain as the ...
Study Finds on MSN1d
Barley Is In Trouble. Can Rice Save The Beer Industry?
Beer prices might soon rise as climate change threatens barley crops, but an unexpected savior is emerging from rice paddies.
Canada's National Observer1d
The ‘king of poisons’ is building up in rice
Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a ...
Cancer-Causing Arsenic Is Building Up in the World’s Rice
Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a ...
Dhaka Tribune22h
Climate change threatens haor rice production, endangering national food supply
Rice production in the haor region is increasingly at risk due to climate change, jeopardizing one of Bangladesh’s primary ...
Japan imports rice from South Korea for the first time in 25 years as production slumps
Japan’s agriculture ministry said that till April 6, prices of 5 5-kilogram bag of rice stood at  4,214 yen, or about 29 ...
Billions Eat This Staple Grain Daily, But Climate Change Could Poison the World’s Supply
Rice already contains arsenic, a naturally occurring toxin. But climate change is supercharging the danger with hotter, ...
Mirage News1d
Rice Emerges as Contender in Malting, Boosts Demand
A new economics study shows the potential for an ancient process to develop new domestic demand for rice and offset declining ...
The Japanese rice crisis
Japan's staple food is in short supply and everything from bad harvests to rising tourist numbers is being blamed ...
Grist10d
The ‘king of poisons’ is building up in rice
Throughout the Yangtze River Delta, a region in southern China famed for its widespread rice production ... crop is almost as old as the ancient grain’s domestication. Thousands of years ...