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Sugarcane production impacting local climate in Brazil
2013-05-01 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Intensification of Brazil's sugarcane industry in response to rising demand for sugar-based ethanol could have impacts on the regional climate reports a new study by researchers from Arizona State University, Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science. Following the conversion of cerrado grasslands into sugarcane in Brazil, a recent study in Geophysical Research Letters found local cooling that approached 1 degree Celsius during the growing season and maximum local warming near...
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