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Mongabay: Sugar cane ethanol cools climate when it replaces cattle pasture Converting cattle pasture and cropland in Brazil to sugar cane helps cool local climate reports research published in Nature Climate Change. Scientists with the Carnegie Institutions’s Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University and the University of Montana analyzed temperature, reflectivity, and evapotranspiration from satellite data across 733,000 square miles–an area larger than the state of Alaska Continue reading →