Overall Green alert Drought for North and Eastern Brazil-2022
in Brazil

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 15 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of mild to severe events.

GDACS ID DR 1015559
Name: North and Eastern Brazil-2022
Countries: Brazil
Start Date: End of Jan 2022
Duration: 503 days
Impact: Minor impact for agricultural drought in 177795 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Articles: 82 | XAbout casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Don’t blame climate change for South American drought2023-02-16T12:10+0100.

Climate change isn’t causing the multi-year drought that is devastating parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, but warming is worsening some of the dry spell’s impacts, a new study says. The natural three-year climate condition La
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Don’t blame climate change for South American drought2023-02-16T11:52+0100.

Climate change isn’t causing the multi-year drought that is devastating parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, but warming is worsening some of the dry spell’s impacts, a new study says. The natural three-year climate condition La
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Study: Don't blame climate change for South American drought2023-02-16T10:38+0100.

1 of 6 FILE - Birds fly over a man taking photos of the exposed riverbed of the Old Parana River, a tributary of the Parana River, during a drought in Rosario, Argentina, on July 29, 2021. Climate change isn’t causing the multi-year drought
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Nearly 40% of Amazon critically damaged by human activity, drought2023-01-30T14:41+0100.

Over a third of the Amazon rainforest has been degraded due to human activity and drought. Without action, conditions could take a turn for the worst as the critically important ecosystem is crying out for protection, researchers said. In a
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (37), WMO (1), INFORM (2),