"But lately life in this supposedly Arcadian community has taken a toxic turn, as the River Madeira's waters have fallen to their lowest level since the 1960s and the skies overhead have filled with smoke from wildfires that are raging across Brazil."
"In the old days we used to understand the river's rise and fall - But lately man has started to affect nature to such an extent that we no longer know how things work... Everything has spun out of control."
"Some of those beaches are hundreds of metres wide. Vast, desert-like expanses of red-hot sand lie between some river-dwellers and the waters on which they depend for food, transport, education and work."
"Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has painted his country's tribulations as part of a growing global emergency fuelled by climate change."
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