Overall Green alert Drought for East Brazil-2023
in Brazil

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 7 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of mild to severe events.

GDACS ID DR 1016527
Name: East Brazil-2023
Countries: Brazil
Start Date: End of May 2023
Duration: 203 days
Impact: Minor impact for agricultural drought in 355568 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Strange weather: Last year’s climate assessment makes for grim reading2024-01-13T20:30+0100.

Powerful waves driven by Cyclone Freddy crashed into the shoreline near the village of Sainte-Anne, on the French overseas island of La Reunion - Copyright AFP/File Charism SAYAT. Record heat in 2023 together with worsened global droughts,
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How 2023's record heat worsened droughts, floods and bushfires2024-01-13T18:43+0100.

Analysis: Global warming is profoundly changing the water cycle, writes Albert Van Dijk for The Conversation. 2023 was a year of record-breaking heat, devastating storms and floods, deepening droughts and raging wildfires. These events show
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Emanuela Evangelista, una biologa sulle palafitte2024-01-13T00:12+0100.

Perché una biologa, Emanuela Evangelista, decide di vivere in un piccolo villaggio di palafitte, a Xixuaú, formato da 15 famiglie nel cuore dell’Amazzonia nel nord del Brasile? «Sono arrivata in questo luogo nel 2000 come ricercatrice scien
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), WMO (1), INFORM (2),