Add it to the list: Rice agriculture

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Another item you can add to the ever-growing blame-it-on-global-warming list: Growing rice. From UC Davis:

More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, coupled with rising temperatures, is making rice agriculture a larger source of the potent greenhouse gas methane, according to a study published today in Nature Climate Change by a research team that includes a University of California, Davis, plant scientist.

But the authors note that relatively simple changes in rice cultivation could help reduce methane emissions. 

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