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Study: Global Warming Was Primary Cause of Unprecedented Amazon Drought - New Delhi Times - India s Only International Newspaper

Human-induced global warming, and not El Nino, 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. Both climate change and El Nino contributed about equally…

Global warming - not El Niño - was primary cause of unprecedented Amazon drought, study finds

Global warming - not El Niño - was primary cause of unprecedented Amazon drought, study finds
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Study: Global Warming Was Primary Cause of Unprecedented Amazon Drought

Study: Global Warming Was Primary Cause of Unprecedented Amazon Drought
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Belo Monte dam s water demands imperil Amazon communities, environment

Belo Monte dam’s water demands imperil Amazon communities, environment by Tiffany Higgins on 16 December 2020 Norte Energia, the builder and operator of the controversial Belo Monte mega-dam is pushing for implementation of a much disputed “consensus hydrogram” a plan to annually manipulate water releases into the Xingu River’s Volta Grande (Big Bend), with estimated peak April releases ranging from a mere 4,000 – 8,000 m3/s. Noting that April average historical river flows in the Volta Grande before the dam was built were 19,985 m3/s, analysts say this dearth of water flow will prevent and imperil annual fish reproduction. One Volta Grande expert estimates that, using the so-called consensus hydrogram plan, at least 80% of Volta Grande fish will die.

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