A severe drought has thrown the Brazilian Amazon into an emergency, with water levels in rivers and lakes across the basin falling to unprecedented lows in September.

The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous isoprene. Until now, it was assumed that this molecule is not transported far up into the atmosphere, as it rapidly declines ...

A severe drought in the Brazilian Amazon is disrupting transport, isolating communities and killing wildlife. The Brazilian government attributes the drought to climate change and the El Niño ...

More than 420,000 children in the Amazon basin are being badly affected by a drought parching much of South America that is impacting water supplies and river transport, UNICEF has said.

“The Amazon Basin is facing one of the most severe droughts in recent years in 2024, with significant impacts on several member countries,” stated a technical note issued Wednesday by the ...

Drought leaves Amazon basin rivers at all-time low. 18 September 2024. Share Save. Mark Poynting, Climate and environment researcher & Vanessa Buschschlüter, Online Latin America editor.

Wildfires devastated the Amazon basin in 2024 They wiped away all progress governments had made to curb deforestation in recent years. Share. Photograph: Lalo de Almeida/Panos.

Water levels in many of the rivers in the Amazon basin have reached their lowest on record amid a continuing drought, the Brazilian Geological Service (SGB) says. The Madeira river, a major ...