MADEIRA RIVER, Brazil — While the Amazon Rainforest’s historical drought was peaking in September 2024, the Paraizinho community, in the southern Amazon, went through its most calamitous times.

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In September 2024, the Amazon’s worst drought in generations hit Paraizinho, a small riverside community that depends on the once-reliable Madeira River. Crops withered. Wells ran dry.

The Madeira River, one of the main tributaries of the Amazon River, continues to dry up. Last week, its level had already fallen below the minimum recorded in 2023, which was 1.10 meters.

Dredging has started on critical points of the Madeira River where only low-draft vessels are able to pass, according to the government’s department of transport infrastructure DNIT. Dredging ...

Dredging has started on critical points of the Madeira river where only low-draft vessels are able to pass, according to the government's department of transport infrastructure DNIT. Dredging work ...

On Tuesday (Jul. 30), the Brazilian Geological Survey (SGB) reported that the Madeira River in Porto Velho, Rondônia state, dropped 35 centimeters in the last week of July, reaching 2.56 meters ...

And all of the major rivers are at critical levels, with the most dramatic decline at the Madeira River, the Amazon River’s longest tributary. On Monday at the measuring site in the city of Port ...

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