Tag: drought
Reading the Burned Leaves of the Amazon Forest: There’s Crisis in the Future
The Amazon is battling record early-year fires, fueling fears of a worse climate crisis ...
Amazon Drought Can Turn the Forest into a Savannah
A severe drought in Brazil’s Amazon has damaged the forest ecosystem, brought chaos for ...
Amazon Drought Becomes Time Bomb for Pandemic Diseases
Home to the greatest biodiversity on the planet, the Amazon is also a ticking ...
Brazil Loses 16% of Its Water. Blame it on the Amazon Deforestation
Recurring drought, regular power outages and a devastated farming industry – these are the ...
World’s Largest Tropical Wetland, the Brazilian Pantanal, Being Converted into Ashes
Fires are raging in the wetlands of west-central Brazil, leaving behind a vast swath ...
US$ 30 Bi: The Cost to Replace the 8.4 Million Soccer Fields of Deforested Amazon Lost in Last Decade
This year, I was on the judging panel for the Royal Statistical Society’s International ...
In Brazil, When They Can’t Deal with the Flood They Call the Army
Thousands of people benefited from actions to deliver supplies and provide transportation and first ...
The Rush to Save a Brazilian Town Dying of Thirst
The shrunken carcasses of cows lie in scorched fields outside the city of Campina ...
Brazil’s Search for Transgenic Drought-Resistant Soy, Bean, Cotton, Sugarcane and Corn
You know that crop landscape where corn stems grow pretty and green, ears of ...
Drought Won’t Prevent Brazil from Getting Largest Cereal Crop Ever
The Brazilian government is forecasting a record crop of cereals and oilseeds totaling 148.9 ...
