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Scientists Race to Save Rice Crops

Floods, droughts, warming threaten world's most vital food

By Heather McPherson,  Newser User

Posted Jul 29, 2007 7:09 AM CDT

(Newser) – While much of the world focuses its attention on oil, 1,000 people in a lab outside Manila are worrying about the other staple the modern world depends on: rice. Because of drought, floods, and overproduction, Asian rice yields are flatlining, the Journal reports; as...   Read full story »

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