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Published online 12 November 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021111-2
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Dried rice makes less gas
Draining paddy fields benefits environment as well as business.
Asia's increasing water shortage is threatening agriculture, but it may have a happy side-effect. It is reducing the amount of the greenhouse gas methane that rice crops release into the atmosphere, new research suggests.
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