Brazil drought lowers river level at Amazon port to 122-year low
The river port of the Amazon rainforest’s largest city, Manaus, reached its lowest level since 1902. Below-average rainfall, even during the rainy season, has plagued the Amazon and much of South America since last year, fuelling the worst forest fires in more than a decade in Brazil and Bolivia.
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