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It's been overshadowed lately by global warming, but the Amazon rain forest also happens to be an incomparable storehouse of carbon, the very carbon that heats up the planet when it's released into the atmosphere. "You can't protect it. There's too much money to be made tearing it down," says the author. "Out here on the frontier, you really see the market at work." This land rush is being accelerated by an unlikely source: biofuels. An explosion in demand for farm-grown fuels has raised global crop prices to record highs. This is making a dramatic expansion of Brazilian agriculture, which is invading the Amazon at an increasingly alarming rate. Propelled by mounting anxieties over soaring oil costs and climate change, biofuels have become the vanguard of the green-tech revolution, the trendy way for politicians and corporations to show they're serious about finding alternative sources of energy and in the process slowing global warming.
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