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In Vietnam, farmers are reducing methane emissions by changing the way they grow rice

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LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — There is one thing that sets the rice fields of 60-year-old Vo Van Van apart from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields in Long An province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: It is not complete flooded. That and the giant drone, with a wingspan resembling that of an … Read more

Ebro Delta workers search for ‘balance’ as water runs out

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Mosquitoes buzz around the researchers on the banks of the Ebro River as they flood the fields and take measurements. The smell of sweat and insect repellent mixes in the humidity as the team tests water-saving strategies in the flooded fields of the Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA) near Amposta. The Ebro is … Read more