News Headline
Amazon and Cerrado deforestation, warming spark record drought in urban Brazil
Source
Mongabay (India)
Publication Date
2021-07-22
Central and southern Brazil are facing their worst drought in almost a century, with many of the country’s giant hydroelectric power plants already operating at a fraction of full capacity, agricultural harvest forecasts being scaled down, and fears mounting that Amazon fires will be worse than ever this August. Electricity rationing looms.