More than 420,000 children affected by record drought in Amazon: UN
2 months ago

More than 420,000 children affected by record drought in Amazon: UN

Al Jazeera  

UNICEF chief urges leaders at the upcoming COP29 summit in Azerbaijan to increase climate financing for children. The record-breaking drought, ongoing since last year, is taking a toll on Indigenous and other communities in Brazil, Colombia and Peru reliant on boat connections, the UN Children’s Fund said ahead of the COP29 climate change summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. The health of the Amazon affects the health of us all.” The UN agency called on leaders to deliver critical actions, including “a dramatic increase” in climate financing for children. Weather observation agencies such as United States space agency NASA’s Earth Observatory and the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service say the drought across the Amazon basin since the latter half of last year was caused by the 2023-2024 El Nino climate phenomenon in the Pacific. Despite the string of environmental setbacks across the Amazon, Brazil’s Environment Minister Marina Silva said it is “possible” for governments to “confront climate change”.

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Climate to take toll on African children
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Climate to take toll on African children

China Daily  

Children in sub-Saharan Africa are among the most at risk of facing the impacts of extreme climate crises. A study titled "The State of the World's Children 2024: The Future of Childhood in a Changing World", released by UNICEF on Tuesday, predicts that the 2050s will see children in sub-Saharan Africa increasingly exposed to extreme weather, including extreme heat waves …

Climate to take toll on African children
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Climate to take toll on African children

China Daily  

Children in sub-Saharan Africa are among the most at risk of facing the impacts of extreme climate crises. A study titled "The State of the World's Children 2024: The Future of Childhood in a Changing World", released by UNICEF on Tuesday, predicts that the 2050s will see children in sub-Saharan Africa increasingly exposed to extreme weather, including extreme heat waves …

Amid the worst drought in Brazil history, wildfires rage and the Amazon falls to a record low level
4 months ago

Amid the worst drought in Brazil history, wildfires rage and the Amazon falls to a record low level

The Independent  

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Severe drought has returned to the Amazon. And it's happening earlier than expected
5 months, 1 week ago

Severe drought has returned to the Amazon. And it's happening earlier than expected

The Independent  

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Drought threatens millions of children as school dropouts rise along with hunger in southern Africa
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Drought threatens millions of children as school dropouts rise along with hunger in southern Africa

Associated Press  

MUDZI, Zimbabwe — It’s Tuesday morning, and 5-year-old Talent should be in school. “One child fainted recently at the school due to hunger,” Chihota said, as she sorted through the fruit that Talent and other children brought home. The drought puts the education of close to 2 million children at risk in Zimbabwe, with some dropping out of school for …

Climate change drives Amazon rainforest's record drought, study finds
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Climate change drives Amazon rainforest's record drought, study finds

The Hindu  

Climate change is the main culprit for a record drought in the Amazon rainforest that has drained rivers, killed endangered dolphins and upended life for millions of people in the region, according to a study released on Wednesday. The drought that hit all nine Amazon rainforest countries - including Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Peru - is expected to worsen in …

Global warming drove record Amazon rainforest drought, study finds
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Global warming drove record Amazon rainforest drought, study finds

Al Jazeera  

New report says climate change responsible for draining rivers, wreaking havoc on biodiversity and communities. Climate change, and not El Nino, was the primary driver of the unprecedented drought last year in the Amazon rainforest that caused rivers to dry up, required deliveries of essential supplies to river communities and resulted in the deaths of endangered dolphins, scientists have said. …

Global warming was primary cause of unprecedented Amazon drought, study finds
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Global warming was primary cause of unprecedented Amazon drought, study finds

Associated Press  

BRASILIA, Brazil — Human-induced global warming, and not El Niño, was the primary driver of last year’s severe drought in the Amazon that sent rivers to record lows, required deliveries of food and drinking water to hundreds of river communities and killed dozens of endangered dolphins, researchers said Wednesday. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest …

In the Amazon, communities next to the world’s most voluminous river are queuing for water
1 year, 2 months ago

In the Amazon, communities next to the world’s most voluminous river are queuing for water

Associated Press  

CAREIRO DA VARZEA, Brazil — As the Amazon drought rages on, public authorities in Brazil are scrambling to deliver food and water to thousands of isolated communities throughout a vast and roadless territory, where boats are the only means of transportation. Packages with food for riverside communities due to the ongoing drought sit on a dock, in Careiro da Varzea, …

In Brazil's Amazon, rivers fall to record low levels during drought
1 year, 2 months ago

In Brazil's Amazon, rivers fall to record low levels during drought

The Hindu  

The Negro River, the Amazon's second largest tributary, on Monday reached its lowest level since official measurements began near Manaus 121 years ago. The Negro River drains about 10% of the Amazon basin and is the world's sixth largest by water volume. Madeira River, another main tributary of the Amazon, has also recorded historically low levels, causing the halt of …

In Brazil’s Amazon, rivers fall to record low levels during drought
1 year, 2 months ago

In Brazil’s Amazon, rivers fall to record low levels during drought

Associated Press  

BRASILIA, Brazil — The Negro River, the Amazon’s second largest tributary, on Monday reached its lowest level since official measurements began near Manaus 121 years ago. A little boy walks across a dry, cracked area of the Negro River near his houseboat during a drought in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Boats and houseboats are stuck in …

Amazon's Indigenous people urge Brazil to declare climate emergency as rivers dry up
1 year, 2 months ago

Amazon's Indigenous people urge Brazil to declare climate emergency as rivers dry up

The Hindu  

Indigenous inhabitants in the Amazon are asking the Brazilian government to declare a climate emergency as their villages have no drinking water, food or medicine due to a severe drought that is drying up rivers vital for travel in the rainforest, their leaders said on Tuesday. The drought and heatwave has killed masses of fish in the rivers that Indigenous …

Photos: Amazon rainforest faces a severe drought affecting thousands
1 year, 3 months ago

Photos: Amazon rainforest faces a severe drought affecting thousands

Al Jazeera  

The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is in the grips of a severe drought that may affect around 500,000 people by the end of the year, limiting their access to food, drinking water and other supplies. Their rotting corpses have contaminated the water supply in some areas, officials told the news agency Reuters, with more than 110,000 people facing repercussions. And …

Brazil’s Amazon rainforest faces a severe drought that may affect around 500,000 people
1 year, 3 months ago

Brazil’s Amazon rainforest faces a severe drought that may affect around 500,000 people

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is facing a severe drought that may affect around 500,000 people by the end of the year, authorities said Tuesday. Authorities will also distribute food and water supplies as well as personal hygiene kits, the state’s civil defense agency said in a statement. According to the port of Manaus, which monitors …

Children in Africa most vulnerable to climate crisis
1 year, 4 months ago

Children in Africa most vulnerable to climate crisis

China Daily  

Children attempt to plough a plantation using cattle in Grand Sud of Betsimeda, Maroalomainty commune, Ambovombe District, Madagascar, on May 2, 2021. The report, "Time to Act: African Children in the Climate Change Spotlight", said children in 48 out of 49 African countries assessed are categorized as at high or extremely high risk of the impacts of climate change. Kitka …

Brazil's Amazon Summit ends with a plan to protect the world's rainforests, but no measurable goals
1 year, 5 months ago

Brazil's Amazon Summit ends with a plan to protect the world's rainforests, but no measurable goals

The Hindu  

Brazil’s Amazon Summit closed on August 9 with a roadmap to protect tropical rainforests that was welcomed as an important step in countering climate change, but without the concrete commitments sought by some environmentalists to end deforestation. Leaders and Ministers from eight Amazon nations signed a declaration on August 8 in Belem, Brazil, that laid out plans to drive economic …

People in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest again reel from floods
2 years, 7 months ago

People in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest again reel from floods

Associated Press  

IRANDUBA, Brazil — For the second straight year, inhabitants of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest are being overwhelmed by flooding, with hundreds of thousands of people already affected by waters that are still rising. Manaus, the Amazon’s largest city, began tracking flood levels in 1902 and has seen seven of its worst floods over the past decade, including this year’s. “It is …

Brazil sets ‘worrying’ new Amazon deforestation record
2 years, 9 months ago

Brazil sets ‘worrying’ new Amazon deforestation record

Al Jazeera  

Brazilian Amazon sees 64 percent jump in deforestation in first three months of 2022 compared with a year earlier. Brazil has set a new grim record for Amazon deforestation during the first three months of 2022 compared with a year earlier, government data shows, spurring concern and warnings from environmentalists. Destruction of the world’s largest rainforest has surged since President …

Has Brazil’s Amazon reached a point of no return?
3 years, 3 months ago

Has Brazil’s Amazon reached a point of no return?

Al Jazeera  

On Monday, September 13 at 19:30 GMT: With the continued deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon, conservation advocates say the world’s largest tropical forest is in the midst of a tipping point that could become catastrophic for the planet’s health and the country’s Indigenous groups. Despite a ban on unauthorised fires and yet another military deployment intended to protect the forests, …

1bn kids live in extremely high-risk countries of climate impacts: Unicef
3 years, 4 months ago

1bn kids live in extremely high-risk countries of climate impacts: Unicef

India TV News  

About 1 billion children, nearly half the world's 2.2 billion kids, live in 33 countries classified as "extremely high-risk" of the impacts of climate change, according to a report by the Unicef. These children face a deadly combination of exposure to multiple climate and environmental shocks with a high vulnerability due to inadequate essential services, such as water and sanitation, …

Nearly 1Bln children at \'extremely high risk\' globally due to climate change: UNICEF
3 years, 4 months ago

Nearly 1Bln children at \'extremely high risk\' globally due to climate change: UNICEF

Deccan Chronicle  

New York: One in two children around the world live in conditions exposing them to the extremely harmful effects of climate change, with those in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau jeopardized the most, the UN Children's Emergency Fund said on Friday. In a study titled "the climate crisis is a child rights crisis: Introducing the children's …

Brazil’s Amazon deforestation soars to 12-year high
4 years, 1 month ago

Brazil’s Amazon deforestation soars to 12-year high

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Brazil's Amazon rainforest has been decimated by deforestation in 2020, soaring to a 12-year high, …

Brazil is ‘not the culprit’ for the Amazon fires, says country’s foreign minister
5 years, 3 months ago

Brazil is ‘not the culprit’ for the Amazon fires, says country’s foreign minister

CNN  

CNN — Brazil’s foreign minister addressed the Amazon fires and climate change on Wednesday – but not in the way you might expect. In a speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ernesto Araujo denied that his country was responsible for the devastation of the rainforest, and accused other countries and activists of trying to …

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