Amazon, drought
Brazil drought sinks Amazon rainforest port river level to 122-year low
Below-average rainfall - even through the rainy season - has plagued the Amazon and much of South America since last year, also feeding the worst wildfires in more than a decade in Brazil and Bolivia. Researchers say climate change is the main culprit.
Drought has dried a major Amazon River tributary to its lowest level in over 122 years
Brazil's geological service says that one of the Amazon River’s main tributaries has dropped to its lowest level in 122 years, reflecting a severe drought that has devastated the Amazon rainforest and other parts of the country.
River level at Amazon rainforest port hits 122-year low amid drought
The river port in the Amazon rainforest's largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought drains waterways and snarls transport of grain exports and essential supplies that are the region's lifeline.
Raimundinha Rodrigues Da Sousa runs the voluntary fire service for the Caititu indigenous community in the Brazilian Amazon.
Francisco Mateus da Silva, 67, spent an hour walking across sandbanks and dry riverbeds where he lives in the Amazon to fetch ...
Over 20 houses made from palm trees were reduced to ash in a community in the Bolivian Amazon region of Riberalta near the border with Brazil, authorities reported.
The environmental risks of dredging include ecosystem disruption, increased erosion, water contamination, and harm to aquatic ...
Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region surged to the highest number for September in almost a decade and a half, ...
When Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opens the United Nations’ General Assembly on Tuesday, he is expected to ...
Researchers in Brazil are lobbying to register archaeological sites as national monuments, which would confer a new layer of ...
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is set to open the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday with a call for ...
Brazil's worst drought on record has helped fuel wildfires in the Amazon rainforest. The Pantanal, a region that encompasses ...
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