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Brazil’s extreme drought is continuing to fuel arid conditions that have resulted in record wildfires in the Amazon.. The flames of tens of thousands of fires have torn over millions of acres ...
European Commission map of drought conditions across South America from February 2023 to January 2024.. The 2023–2024 South American drought refers to an ongoing drought across several states of Brazil in addition to Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia, which has led to several significant impacts including record low water levels, significant water shortages, sweeping crop failures, and widespread ...
The historically low water levels have affected hundreds of thousands of people and wildlife and, with experts predicting the drought could last until early 2024, the problems stand to intensify.
MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) -The Amazon River fell to its lowest level in over a century on Monday at the heart of the Brazilian rainforest as a record drought upends the lives of hundreds of ...
During Brazil's worst drought, wildfires rage and the Amazon River falls to a record low By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil is enduring its worst drought since nationwide measurements began over seven decades ago, with 59% of the country under stress — an area roughly half the size of the U.S.
Bones from an Amazon pink river dolphin are embedded in dried mud along the banks of Lake Tefé in Tefe, Brazil, on Oct. 31, 2023. More than 200 river dolphins died in the 2023 drought that sent ...
[5] [6] [7] Over 50% of Brazil was affected, as the drought spanned sections of all nine northeastern states. Between 2012-2015, the federal government decreed a state of “public calamity” over 6,200 times due to the droughts. [8] This is the worst drought in Brazil in the last 100 years, according to the O Estado de S. Paulo in September ...
An extreme drought — largely connected to climate change — has punished the Amazon in recent years, worsening in 2024 and helping fuel wildfires now raging in the forests along Paraguay’s northeast border with Brazil, where residents said Monday the air smelled of acrid smoke, and in parts of Bolivia, where the government has declared a ...