<story><title>Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields</title><url>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/bali-rice-experiment-cuts-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-increases-yields/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Rice paddies are responsible for 11% of the world’s methane emissions.&lt;p&gt;...researchers .. have discovered how to dramatically reduce the greenhouse gas emissions output of rice fields. Initial indications are showing a 70% reduction.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;So ballpark: Looks like we could reduce (strikethrough: greenhouse gas) &lt;i&gt;methane&lt;/i&gt; emissions by 7 percent or so a year while growing more rice to boot from this one change if enough farms adopted it and the article indicates that halfway through the planting season, farmers who had been reluctant to try it spontaneously changed to the new method simply because the crop yield was better:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Even when the pilot was halfway through, the crops were looking so healthy that a further 10 farmers in the village who weren’t part of the project chose to drain their land.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;And I wondered what a 7 percent reduction in greenhouse gasses would do for climate change and found this opening paragraph:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Geneva, 26 November 2019 – On the eve of a year in which nations are due to strengthen their Paris climate pledges, a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report warns that unless global greenhouse gas emissions fall by 7.6 per cent each year between 2020 and 2030, the world will miss the opportunity to get on track towards the 1.5°C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.mongabay.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;bali-rice-experiment-cuts-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-increases-yields&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.mongabay.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;bali-rice-experiment-cuts-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields</title><url>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/bali-rice-experiment-cuts-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-increases-yields/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>morley</author><text>The &amp;quot;how&amp;quot; took some reading to find. Here it is:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; They filled one field with water, as is common in Bali, but they drained the other, wetting the soil only when hairline cracks were spotted in the earth</text></comment>