Global warming is accelerating 5,000 times faster than rice can evolve

A view of a terraced rice field, with small sprouts sitting in water, with mountains in the background.

Climate change is pushing rice-growing regions into temperatures beyond those at which rice has been cultivated in the past 9,000 years of human history, new research finds.

The study suggests that warming is proceeding 5,000 times faster than rice has ever evolved.