As Brazil ramps up sugarcane production researchers foresee regional climate effects

Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 13:40 in Earth & Climate

Conversion of large swaths of Brazilian land for sugar plantations will help the country meet its needs for producing cane-derived ethanol but it also could lead to important regional climate effects, according to a team of researchers from Arizona State University, Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science.

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