Climate Change Series In the northern part of Mato Grosso state in Brazil, where cerrado, a savannah-like woodland, merges into Amazon rainforest, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence of climate change.
“We’ve never had weather like this,” says Carlos Alberto Guimarães, a veteran rancher who raises cattle on several properties in the state. He and the other ranchers sitting on his veranda agree: the rains have come much later in recent years, as late as November, instead of August when they used to start.
