Overall Orange alert Drought for South America-2023
in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, Venezuela

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 23 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of severe to extreme events.

GDACS ID DR 1016449
Name: South America-2023
Glide number: DR-2023-000204-BRA
Countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, Venezuela
Start Date: End of Sep 2022
Duration: 744 days
Impact: Medium impact for agricultural drought in 4169973 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Forest fire in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, Paraguay, Suriname - EC/ECHO daily mapFri, 16 Feb 2024 15:42

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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Día del Árbol: Encaran campañas de reforestación, pero incendios persi.. 10/2/2024 12:33:00 AM.

Cada 1 de octubre, Bolivia celebra el Día del Árbol. Este martes, se realizaron campañas de reforestación en varios ligares del país, pero la emergencia por los incendios forestales continúa. El último reporte oficial del poder ejecutivo, d
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2:30 am 10/1/2024 8:50:00 AM.

The Pantanal is the world’s largest tropical wetland, with an area of 153,000 km 2 , mostly (77,41%) in southwestern Brazil but also partly in Bolivia (16,41%) and Paraguay (6,15%). A study by scientists at the University of São Paulo (USP)
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Why South America is burning 10/1/2024 1:19:00 AM.

This fire season is "completely different" from the one that ravaged forests in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia in 2019, according to Brazilian environmentalist Erika Berenguer, a researcher at Oxford University. At the time, rain helped douse the
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How emissions from Brazilian Pantanal''s soda lakes contribute to clim.. 9/30/2024 9:32:00 PM.

Seasonal variations with alternating dry and rainy seasons and fluctuating levels of nutrients are factors that significantly influence greenhouse gas emissions from soda lakes in the Pantanal, considered less common than emissions from fre
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Analytical report

02/Aug/2024 07:09 UTC

GDO analytical report imported in GDACS update automatic procedure

Analytical report

04/Jan/2024 14:20 UTC

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),