Rice is the main staple carbohydrate source for billions of people worldwide. Natural
geogenic and anthropogenic sources has led to high arsenic (As) concentrations in rice …

Arsenic (As) contamination is a well-recognized environmental and health issue, threatening
over 200 million people worldwide with the prime cases in South and Southeast Asian and …

Emissions into the atmosphere from human activities show marked temporal variations, from
inter-annual to hourly levels. The consolidated practice of calculating yearly emissions …

Multiple crop**, defined as harvesting more than once a year, is a widespread land
management strategy in tropical and subtropical agriculture. It is a way of intensifying …

Global and regional scale agricultural monitoring systems aim to provide up-to-date
information regarding food production to different actors and decision makers in support of …

Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the world's most important food crops, and is comprised largely
of japonica and indica subspecies. Here, we reconstruct the history of rice dispersal in Asia …

Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus mainly spread by Culex
mosquitoes that currently has a geographic distribution across most of Southeast Asia and …

Projections of global rice yields account for climate change. They do not, however, consider
the coupled stresses of impending climate change and arsenic in paddy soils. Here, we …

This study is the first of its kind to quantify possible effects of climate change on rice
production in Africa. We simulated impacts on rice in irrigated systems (dry season and wet …

The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) time series allows describing the rice phenological
cycle by the backscattering time signature. Therefore, the advent of the Copernicus Sentinel …