People living along the dried-up rivers have had to carry drinking water on their shoulders Water levels in many of the rivers in the Amazon basin have reached their lowest on record amid a ...
The other factor is fire. The Amazon basin, once likened to an Inland Sea by Alfred Russell Wallace, is becoming dryer. Huge areas of primary forest, once too wet to ever be at risk of fires ...
The Amazon basin is the largest and most complex river system in the world The Amazon basin could suffer significant and irreversible damage if an extensive dam building programme goes ahead ...