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

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

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

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.

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