Likely made worse by global warming and deforestation, the drought has fuelled large wildfires that have made the air hazardous for millions of people, including Indigenous communities, while also drying out major rivers at a record pace.
Some 153 dolphins have died in a single week in a Brazilian lake, 10 percent of the lake's entire dolphin population. The Lake Tefé dead were made up of 130…
Despite a severe drought that is exacerbating fires and drying up rivers, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is still on the decline, according to data released today by INPE, Brazil’s national space research institute. INPE’s near-real-time deforestation monitoring system, DETER, detected 629 square kilometers of forest clearing in September. This is 57% less than the […]