Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Eight dead as violent storms sweep Brazil after worst-ever drought
In September, water levels in many of the rivers in the Amazon basin in
Brazil reached their lowest on record amid a continuing drought. There were
over 100 municipalities that had not seen rain for over five months, including Brazilia,
the capital. However, all of a sudden, brief but violent storms swept across
the country on October 11. Rainfall reached as much as 10 cm with winds up to
100km/h, knocking out the power of over a million homes and businesses. At
least eight people died. While the damage to the infrastructure was significant,
many people welcomed the long-awaited rain, which is assumed to have
extinguished at least some parts of the wildfires around the Amazon rainforest
and Pantanal wetland. A long drought and downpour. Brazil, the Amazon River,
and the Amazon rainforest seem to be facing fast-worsening climate change. Does
this extreme weather shift sound similar to the one in the famous science
fiction trilogy, “The Three-Body Problem” by Liu Cixin?
Read the article and learn about the recent radical weather conditions
in Brazil and the Amazon.
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