Flooding and landslides triggered by torrential rain have now killed at least 100 people in northeastern Brazil, officials said on Tuesday as emergenc.
Flooding and landslides triggered by torrential rain have now killed at least 106 people in northeastern Brazil, officials said Tuesday as emergency workers continued a desperate search.
Unlike India facing intense heatwaves or France battling drought, Brazil this week has witnessed some of the most chilling temperatures ever seen in its southern states. Experts are not ruling out climate…
The monotony of soybean monoculture dominates the landscape in many areas of Mato Grosso and other Brazilian states. The regularity of rains in the Cerrado biome – Brazil’s savannah - favours this crop at the start of the rainy season, in September or October, and allows a second planting of corn or cotton before the dry season. CREDIT: Mario Osava/IPS
RÍO DE JANEIRO, May 4 2021 (IPS) - “Rainfall is fundamental; the streams and rivers we have would not suffice for irrigation, even if they were the Amazon River,” said Dirceu Dezem, referring to the amount of water required for the extensive crops in Brazil’s midwest.