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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 ...
As Brazil grapples with its worst drought in 80 years, the town of Igarata is re-emerging.
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.
In 2005, parts of the Amazon basin experienced the worst drought in more than a century. [85] This has been the result of two factors: The rainforest provides much of the rainfall in Brazil, even in areas far from it. Deforestation increased the impacts of the droughts of 2005, 2010, and 2015–2016. [86] [87]
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 ...
South America's Paraguay River, a key thoroughfare for grains, has hit a record low in Paraguay's capital Asuncion, with water levels depleted by a severe drought upriver in Brazil that has ...
2015 Caribbean drought; China. 1875 Drought and subsequent famine; ... Drought in Northeastern Brazil; Grande Seca (1877–78) 2014–2017 Brazilian drought;
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.