Alarm bells are ringing loudly as the world's largest river, the Amazon River dries up:
"Never has so little rain fallen in the rainforest, never have dry conditions lasted so long, and never has such a vast region of the jungle been in drought"
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/world/americas/south-america-drought-amazon-river.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Uk4.A32D.p84BitppF7lo&smid=em-share
An Alarming Glimpse Into a Future of Historic Droughts
Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires, power cuts and water rationing. The world’s largest river system, the Amazon, which sustains some 30 million people across eight countries, is drying up.
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