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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 ...
The Brazilian Geological Service (SGB) has warned that water levels have been falling since June and all rivers in the Amazon basin are expected to drop below their historical levels. In Manaus ...
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 ...
The average flow rate at the mouth of the Amazon is sufficient to fill more than 83 such pools each second. The estimated global total for all rivers is 1.2 × 10 6 m 3 /s (43 million cu ft/s), [ 1 ] of which the Amazon would be approximately 18%.
Map of the Amazon river basin. The Hamza and the Amazon are the two main drainage systems for the Amazon Basin. The reported flow rate of the Hamza, at approximately 3,000 cubic metres (110,000 cu ft) per second, is 3% of the Amazon's. [3] It runs west to east, some 4,000 metres (13,000 ft) below the Earth's surface, and follows roughly the ...
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).
Bones from an Amazon pink river dolphin are embedded in dried mud along the banks of Lake Tefé in Tefe, Brazil, on Oct. 31, 2023. More than 200 river dolphins died in the 2023 drought that sent ...
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 ...