Earlier studies have examined how warming and pollution affect rice yields across the country, but the new research used more detailed mapping than previous work to separate their combined effects acr ...

A preprint published on March 21, 2026, finds that AI data centers raise land surface temperatures in their immediate surroundings by an average of roughly 2 degrees Celsius once they begin operating, ...

THIMPHU – The country’s rice bowl, Punakha, is warming at a pace that is putting vast swathes of paddy under strain. As irrigation sources dry up, this slow-moving climate shock is resulting in a ...