New Variety Of Rice Fights Global Warming And Global Hunger

As the COP21 climate change talks get underway in Paris this week, it’s nice to see real progress on a critical front that doesn’t get enough attention – food and climate. A slight change in a single gene of rice can avoid the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions each year as all the wind turbines in the world, or 15 nuclear power plants.

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