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15 Φεβ 2024 · Most of the Amazon Basin’s main rivers fell dramatically and, in places, dried up completely in September and October, says Jose Marengo, a climate scientist at Brazil’s National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters. Heat blanketed 60% of the rainforest, with temperatures 2°C to 5°C above normal highs.
26 Σεπ 2019 · The Amazon basin is exceptional. It spans at least 6 million square kilometers (2.3 million square miles), nearly twice the size of India. It is home to Earth’s largest rainforest, as well as the largest river for the volume of the flow and the size of the drainage basin.
Climate change, deforestation and other human threats are driving the rainforest towards a tipping point of sustainability. Researchers are racing to chart the Amazon’s future.
As the map below shows, drought hit almost all of the Amazon basin. This scale - and intensity - makes it different to previous droughts, Dr Clarke told BBC News. And if warming continues,...
6 Οκτ 2024 · The Amazon River, battered by back-to-back droughts fueled by climate change, is drying up, with some stretches of the mighty waterway dwindling to shallow pools only a few feet deep.
24 Ιαν 2024 · Climate change was the primary driver of a massive drought in the Amazon basin in 2023 and will likely cause future extreme droughts, with potentially dire consequences for global efforts...
1 Σεπ 2021 · Biodiversity contributes to the ecological and climatic stability of the Amazon Basin 1,2, but is increasingly threatened by deforestation and fire 3,4. Here we quantify these impacts over...
