Growing rice in the UK 'not so crazy' as climate warms

Photo by OLI SCARFF / AFP Dr Nadine Mitschunas, an ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, inspects a crop of various rice species being grown on a trial site in rewetted peat soils on the Cambridgeshire Fens, in Pymoor, near Ely, eastern England on October 14, 2025.