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23 Nov

Floods damage rice crop in northern Vietnam

Hanoi - Flooding from heavy rains over the past two weeks has severely damaged 15,000 hectares of rice paddies in far northern Vietnam, the Vietnamese press reported Monday. The Agriculture Ministry had sent an urgent message Sunday to farmers in nor... ...


China's smogs have surprise climate benefit

It may be the scourge of China's Olympic organisers, but the industrial smog could be cutting emissions of methane from rice paddies ...


China's smogs have surprise climate benefit

It may be the scourge of China's Olympic organisers, but the industrial smog could be cutting emissions of methane from rice paddies ...


Journeys | Vietnam: The Mekong, Seen Over Handlebars

The writer explores the marshy backwaters of Vietnam by bicycle, cruising past bamboo cafes on stilts and endless green rice paddies. ...

Bury NYTimes July 19

field behind house

before they plant the rice the fields all have this golden grass planted in it... my guess is for weed control so the fields don't end up looking like our backyard does now *later noted: it's wheat! apparently Japan has a surplus of rice so the government started replacing rice paddies with wh...


What Doesn't Break a Toughbook Makes It Stronger: How They Test the Hell Out of Them [Laptops]

What Doesn't Break a Toughbook Makes It Stronger: How They Test the Hell Out of Them [Laptops]

Deep in the northwest corner of Kobe, Japan, there's a factory hidden away among green rice paddies, and sleepy farming villages of tiled roofs. If you were to travel here, to Takatsukadai—the middle of nowhere—you'd find Panasonic's Toughbook plant quietly making notebooks with the w...

Bury Gizmodo July 02

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