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Amazon: A River In Flux
March 31st, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a report on the Amazon River, where extreme flooding and droughts may be the new norm, challenging its people and ecosystems: Jochen Schöngart darts back and forth along an escarpment just above the Amazon River, a short water taxi ride from downtown Manaus, Brazil. It’s still early this October morning in […]
Read more »Brazil-Bolivia Dam Reignites Debates on Hydropower in the Amazon
February 3rd, 2024
Via Diálogo Chino, a look at how communities have pushed back on a proposed Ribeirão dam, a joint initiative by Brazil and Bolivia on the Madeira River, decrying dams’ impacts and seeking alternatives in solar: On a hot August day in the city of Guajará-Mirim, in Brazil’s Rondônia state, more than 140 people packed into a […]
Read more »A Severe Drought Pushes an Imperiled Amazon to the Brink
October 17th, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, a sobering report on the Amazon – a rainforest that holds a fifth of the world’s fresh water, but deforestation, dwindling rain and unrelenting heat are sucking it dry: The planet’s biggest freshwater tank is in trouble. The Amazon rainforest, where a fifth of the world’s freshwater flows, is reeling from […]
Read more »Amazon Drought Cuts River Traffic, Leaves Communities Without Water
October 5th, 2023
Via Mongabay, a report on Brazil’s Amazon drought: Falling water levels in the rivers and lakes of the Brazilian Amazon are restricting the flow of ships and boats, the main form of transport in the region and the only means of access to health and education facilities for many communities. This year’s drought is exacerbated […]
Read more »Water, Not Lithium, Is The Resource Latin America Should Worry About
August 19th, 2023
Via Rest of World, commentary on how water, not lithium, is the resource Latin America should worry about: As fires, storms, and heat ravage large swathes of the planet, the world seems to have ramped up its efforts to address climate change. At the heart of this drive is the emergence of “climate tech” — a […]
Read more »Brazilian Water Security Threatened by Climate Change and Human Behavior
July 8th, 2023
Courtesy of AGU, a new academic study on Brazil’s water security: Abstract Water scarcity is a growing concern globally, with climate change and increasing population exacerbating the issue. Here, we introduce a new framework for assessing water availability in 708 Brazilian catchments that considers the effect of CO2 concentrations on potential evapotranspiration, uses CMIP6 bias-corrected climate […]
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