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This is a list of countries and sovereign states by temperature. Average yearly temperature is calculated by averaging the minimum and maximum daily temperatures in the country, averaged for the years 1991 – 2020, from World Bank Group , derived from raw gridded climatologies from the Climatic Research Unit .
In some parts of these cities, the concentration of air particles smaller than 10 micrometers is 2.5 times higher than the Latin American and Caribbean average and comparable to heavily polluted South American cities such as Santiago and Mexico City. [18] Beyond urban areas, indoor air pollution affects almost 80% of the rural population. [18]
The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 1 ] or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent.
Between 1971 and 2000, average summer temperatures rose by 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit in the U.S., and by 2.7 degrees across much of the West. Those unwelcome facts have left many residents scrambling ...
The throngs of street vendors in the South American country’s vast informal work force ended their nearly 100-kilometer (60-mile) march from Bolivia’s mountain-rimmed plains with a call that ...
The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1 °F). [1] Summer temperatures in Europe were the coldest of any on record between 1766 and 2000, [ 2 ] resulting in crop failures and major food shortages across the Northern ...
A prolonged drought in Bolivia and one of the hottest winters on record is threatening to leave parts of the South American country short of water, including in the high-altitude city of El Alto ...
Weather historian Maximiliano Herrera stated that "South America is living one of the extreme events the world has ever seen" and "This event is rewriting all climatic books". [1] On 1 August 2023, Buenos Aires broke a 117 year heat record. Chile saw highs towards 40 °C and Bolivia saw unseasonably high temperatures, while Asunción saw 33 °C ...