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Rice cultivation can aggravate global warming: study

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Press Trust of India Washington
Last Updated : Jan 25 2013 | 5:33 AM IST

Researchers from the Trinity College Dublin, Northern Arizona University and University of California in Davis gathered all published research to date from 63 different experiments on rice paddies, mostly from Asia and North America.

"Our results show that rice agriculture becomes less climate friendly as our atmosphere continues to change. This is important, because rice paddies are one of the largest human sources of methane, and rice is the world

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