The 26-year-old went off the front with a group of five riders and raced clear in pouring rain with 15km left to clinch his first major career win.
With one tree able to produce as much as 400 pounds of food a year, using the Maya nut prevents rain forest clear-cutting to harvest other foods and increases populations' food supplies.
The weather forecast isn't bad - some rain has to clear on the first morning, but then it is essentially dry and bright.
The problem is that while clear-cutting sections of rain forest and burning out all the underbrush makes great soil for pastureland, it only does so for about three years.
Then, seconds later under a steady rain, it became clear that white smoke was pouring out.
The Met Office said the rain was expected to clear north of Banbury through the early hours of Sunday.
Rain is expected to clear during the early hours of Sunday, but further heavy showers are expected to follow later in the day and through to Monday, with unsettled weather likely to continue into next week.
Over the past decade, Brazil has cracked down on clear-cutting, especially in the biodiverse Amazon rain forest, reducing the rate of deforestation by 80%.
Strauss must have been praying for rain but if anything the skies began to clear and Haddin's assault continued as Collingwood was dispatched for a couple more leg side fours and another six.
Sunday's finale was played out in torrential rain in south-west France and Dibowski's clear round piled the pressure on Fox-Pitt.
Then, with Brett Gardner set to lead off the fifth inning, the game went into a two-hour rain delay as the teams waited for the thunderstorms to clear.
Firefighters used pumps to clear 7, 000 litres of water a minute from the roads as rain eased.
They soon found that much of the rain forest that would have harbored coffee trees in the past had been clear cut to grow corn, bananas and grass for livestock.
The Environment Agency said rain falling on already saturated ground is likely to lead to flooding this week, although a clear start to Monday was forecast for south-east England.
But it would have added something to have examined more systematically the differences between cases where the science is clear (ozone after 1987) and where there was a fair amount of hype (forest death through acid rain).
And it was all settled by Warrington enjoying two scoring bursts to one at the rain-lashed Halliwell Jones to complete a first Super League double over St Helens and move two points clear at the top.
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