Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Stark before-and-after pictures reveal dramatic shrinking of major
Amazon rivers
Melting glaciers made Italy and Switzerland redraw their border in the
High Alps (Vol.4550). On the other side of the planet, tributaries of the world’s
largest Amazon River have plunged to the lowest levels on record, which affects
the lives of people, animals, and plants. As Brazil has been suffering from
extreme drought for two consecutive years, the impacts on the rivers and the Amazon
rainforest, a vital spot for biodiversity and climate change buffer, are shockingly
extreme. Riverbeds are exposed, ships are left stranded, and the pink river dolphins
are found dead. Also, the drought has fueled devastating wildfires that have
destroyed huge swaths of the Amazon rainforest and tropical wetlands. “Who Pays?”,
Greenpeace activists drew on sandbanks of the dried upper Amazon River.
Read the article and see the photos of river beds and sandbanks of the Amazon.
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