Drought in Brazil’s Amazon is sharpening fears for the future 
By Edmar Barros BR Source: The Associated Press 10/8/2023
Edmar Barros
Credit: AP Photo/Edmar Barros
Communities dependent on the Amazon rainforest’s waterways are stranded without supply of fuel, food or filtered water. Dozens of river dolphins perished and washed up on shore. And thousands of lifeless fish float on the water’s surface.
 

These are just the first grim visions of extreme drought sweeping across Brazil’s Amazon. The historically low water levels have affected hundreds of thousands of people and wildlife and, with experts predicting the drought could last until early 2024, the problems stand to intensify.

 
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