"The rate at which the Amazon is drying up is scary and much faster than anyone predicted," says Renato Senna, a climatologist at INPE.
"We thought 2023 was bad, but 2024 has been far worse," Senna remarks, highlighting the severity of the ongoing drought.
In some parts of the Amazon, the annual dry season is now lasting one month longer than it did in the 1970s, according to researchers.
The Rio Negro hit the lowest levels since records were first kept in 1902, indicating the unprecedented nature of the current drought.
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