Lakes become mud puddles, river courses look like dirt roads. Images of drought in northern Brazil’s Amazon, alongside floods in the southern states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, provide a glimpse of the country’s future with the worsening of climate change.
The Rio Negro (black river), which joins the Solimões to form the Amazon river, has been the lowest since hydrological measurements began in the region in 1902. Locals walk for kilometres in search of drinking water, entire crops have been lost, and passenger and cargo transport were interrupted as the river became shallower.
