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Climate Change & Energy: Climate change in Brazil

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Climate change and insect-borne disease: Facts and figures

Priya Shetty explains the links between climate change and insect-borne disease, and outlines priorities for developing country policymakers.

9 September 2009 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

Climate change — adapting is crucial too

Climate change is a reality in developing regions, who say the international community must not neglect better adaptation strategies.

4 September 2009 | EN

Reducing forest emissions: Facts and figures

Hannah Chalmers gives the low-down on how reducing emissions from deforestation can play a central role in tackling climate change.

8 July 2009 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

Sugarcane culture in Sertaozinho, Sao Paulo

Sugarcane ethanol: Brazil's biofuel success

Brazil's successful sugarcane ethanol industry owes much to massive investment in infrastructure and research, reports Carla Almeida.

6 December 2007 | EN | ES

Predicted rainfall in the Amazon in 2100(light brown = reduction by 3 mm/day)

Brazil faces forecast of heat and dust

New climate change models predict a heavy impact from global warming on Brazil's biodiversity, agriculture and health, reports Helen Mendes.

8 February 2007 | EN

The green image of hydropower may have been seriously overstated

Hydropower: a greenhouse gas culprit?

Tropical reservoirs might release more greenhouse gas than fossil-fuel power stations — a potential blow to future hydropower projects.

Source: Nature

1 December 2006 | EN | 中文

Daniel Nepstad

Good news, bad news from parched Amazon

Erik Stokstad reports on an unprecedented experiment that is depriving a patch of the Amazon forest of rainfall to study the effects of extended drought.

Source: Science

15 April 2005 | EN

Brazil's dilemma: rainforest or export revenue?

Brazil may face a hard choice between economic growth and preserving the Amazon rainforest, according to this article in The Economist.

Source: The Economist

19 April 2004 | EN