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Brazil is experiencing its most severe drought in over 70 years, severely impacting many areas, including the Amazon rainforest. The drought has depleted water resources, severely damaged agriculture, and created a widespread risk of wildfires. According to meteorological agencies, this situation is partly due to the El Niño phenomenon and climate change. Major rivers, such as the Amazon and Negro rivers, have reached record low water levels, affecting millions of people and local ecosystems.
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Join Travellive in looking back at a series of images depicting the historic droughts that devastated Brazil:
Reis Santo Vieira da Silva, a man living along the Madeira River, built a canoe on the riverbank during the worst drought in history, in Humaita, Amazonas state.
The banks of the Rio Negro are dry during a drought in central Manaus, Amazonas state.
A herd of emaciated livestock sits beside a burnt tree after a forest fire in the town of Labrea.
The banks of the Rio Negro river are drying up due to drought in central Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil. The photo was taken on September 16th.
Floating houses and boats are stranded due to the drought affecting the Rio Negro, the largest left-hand tributary of the Amazon River, in the Cacau Pirera area of Iranduba, Amazonas state.
Residents along the Madeira River carry large containers and walk long distances across the sand to transport water to a remote area belonging to the Paraizinho community in Humaitá, Amazonas state.
Children play on the sandbanks – what remains of the Madeira River, after the worst drought in history, photographed in Humaita, Amazonas state.
In August alone, the Amazon rainforest witnessed 38,270 fires, the highest monthly figure since 2010, mainly concentrated in the states of Para, Amazonas, and Mato Grosso.
What remains of one of the thousands of trees burned in the spreading wildfire in the Amazon rainforest at Apui.
In early September 2024, the Madeira River in Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, had completely dried up.
Unprecedented wildfires have devastated vast areas of forest in the Amazon.
Damage caused by wildfires in the Trans-Amazon Highway BR230 area in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil.
Smoke rises from a forest fire in the Amazon near the Trans-Amazon Highway BR230 in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil.
Members of the firefighting team from the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) are working to extinguish a wildfire that broke out in the Amazon rainforest in Apui, Amazonas state.
Sandra Gomes, a riverside resident, is stocking up on drinking water with her daughter as the worst drought in history is affecting the Madeira River in Humaita, Amazonas state.
According to data from the Brazilian National Institute for Forestry Research (INPE), the number of forest fires in the Amazon region in August and the first half of September increased by 120% compared to the same period last year and by 234% compared to July. The image shows the devastation caused by a forest fire.
Thao Han
- Source: The Atlantic
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