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Last year's record drought in the Amazon and less than usual rainfall since caused river water levels to drop rapidly, hindering navigation by barges carrying grains for export and cutting off ...
MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) -The Amazon River fell to its lowest level in over a century on Monday at the heart of the Brazilian rainforest as a record drought upends the lives of hundreds of ...
MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) -The river port in the Amazon rainforest's largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought drains waterways and snarls transport of grain ...
European Commission map of drought conditions across South America from February 2023 to January 2024.. The 2023–2024 South American drought refers to an ongoing drought across several states of Brazil in addition to Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia, which has led to several significant impacts including record low water levels, significant water shortages, sweeping crop failures, and widespread ...
The candirú, native to the Amazon River, is a species of parasitic fresh water catfish in the family Trichomycteridae, [93] just one of more than 1200 species of catfish in the Amazon basin. Other catfish 'walk' overland on their ventral fins, [ 40 ] : 27–29 while the kumakuma ( Brachyplatystoma filamentosum ), aka piraiba or "goliath ...
A large outflow of fresh and brackish water from the Amazon mouth - the Amazon river plume - extends through the middle of the Amazonia ecoregion, being pulled north by the NBC. Combined with rainfall this lowers the salinity of the ecoregion's waters, to levels that average 35-36.75 ppm. Surface temperatures range from 22–29 °C (72–84 °F).
In the morning, the water level in the city´s port went as low as 13.5 meters (44.3 feet), down from 30.02 meters (98.5 feet) registered in June 2021 — its highest level on record.
In these images acquired by Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 29 September 2022, and 2023, the drought-induced lowering of the water levels of the Amazon River in Brazil can clearly be seen. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites provide free and open data that can be used to monitor droughts and their impact on water bodies, ecosystems and ...