Tag: drought

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 09:19 UTC

  Ecological disaster: fires destroying Brazil's wetlands suffering the worst drought in 47 years

  

  Fires are raging in the wetlands of west-central Brazil, leaving behind a vast swath of charred ruins in a paradise of biodiversity. The enormous fires have destroyed nearly 12% of the world’s largest tropical wetland, partially reducing to ashes one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on the planet.

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• Wednesday, August 26th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Fires are raging in several Argentine provinces fueled by strong winds and persistent drought

  

  Fires are raging in Argentina’s Cordoba province, prompting evacuations and threatening to destroy homes, fueled in part by strong winds and a lack of rain, officials said on Monday.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Parana river insufficient water level benefitted exports from Brazilian ports

  

  Due to the Paraná river drought, which affected Argentina’s soy oil-exporting capacity, Cattalini Terminais Marítimos, which handles almost 70% of Brazil’s soy oil exports through its facilities in the port of Paranaguá, predicts a 25% increase in shipments this year.

• Friday, May 15th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Next Monday Itaipu opens its spillway to help lift the drought stricken Parana river level

  

  The world's largest operational hydroelectric dam, Itaipu Plant announced that starting next Monday, May 18, it will open its spillway to help Paraguay and Argentina, which are suffering from a drought and hence having problems transporting their grain harvest.

• Saturday, April 18th 2020 - 19:56 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil trying to lift the water level of the Parana River, in the heartland of the soy belt

  

  The governments of Argentina and Brazil are in talks to release water from the giant Itaipu Dam with a view to topping up the Parana River, where ebbing levels are conspiring against a US$ 20-billion-a-year crop export business.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Parana river water level hampering grain transport in the midst of peak harvest

  

  Below normal rains in the Parana-Paraguay water basin is hampering grain transport through waterways in Argentina as the water level of the river has dropped significantly, Bolsa de Comercio de Rosario, or BCR, said in a report.

• Tuesday, April 7th 2020 - 07:48 UTC

  Central Chile drought has residents and mining companies clash over water rights

  

  With historically low river flows and reservoirs running dry due to drought, people in central Chile have found themselves particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic. Years of resource exploitation and lax legislation have allowed most reservoirs in that part of the country to run dry.

• Thursday, May 30th 2019 - 08:37 UTC

  Australia's drought conditions to persist for at least three months, forcing wheat import

  

  Hot, dry weather will persist across Australia's east coast for at least another three months, the country's weather bureau said on Thursday, in a forecast that threatens to severely crimp agricultural production.

• Tuesday, August 21st 2018 - 08:04 UTC

  Emus flock to towns as Australia continues to struggle with extreme drought

  

  Large numbers of emus have been flocking to an outback mining town in New South Wales as Australia continues to struggle with extreme drought. The flightless birds are desperately searching for food and water in Broken Hill, local animal rescue services say.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  Uruguay´s soybean crop forecasted to drop 43% because of devastating drought

  

  Due to the recent devastating drought, soybean production in Uruguay is forecast to drop to 1.7 million tons in 2017-18, according to an April 30 Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.