Half the world eats it. One-fifth of our calories come from it. But rice has a dark secret: It pumps pollutants into the air and is vulnerable to extreme weather. So how can we grow rice better? Credits Reporter: Ajit Niranjan Camera: Florian Mettke Video Editor: Nils Reinecke Supervising editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Michael Trobridge, Kiyo Dörrer We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess. #PlanetA #Rice #Climate Read more: Rice emissions per kilogram of food: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaq0216 Total rice industry emissions: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00358-x.epdf Alternate wetting and drying: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378377418318638 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652622030955 https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/12/5/1510 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1809276115 Biochar: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652622025902 Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:47 Background 02:30 Draining fields 05:49 Burning waste 08:06 Growing less 10:14 Conclusion