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[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 ...
In 2015, the Southeast Region of Brazil suffered the consequences of a severe drought (aggravated by El Niño), which led to above-average temperatures and a large decline in the level of several rivers and reservoirs; as a result, residents had to save water and cutoffs were made.
As Brazil grapples with its worst drought in 80 years, the town of Igarata is re-emerging.
Pages in category "2015 natural disasters" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... 2014–2017 Brazilian drought; C. 2015 Chilean storm;
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 ...
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 ...
2014–2017 Brazilian drought; C. 2011–2017 California drought; Cape Town water crisis; 2015 Caribbean drought; E. Eastern Cape drought; N. 2012–2013 North ...
The carvings of human faces on the shore of the Amazon are thought to be at least 1,000 years old.