Overall Orange alert Drought for Northern South America-2023
in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 13 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of severe to extreme events.

GDACS ID DR 1016449
Name: Northern South America-2023
Glide number: DR-2023-000204-BRA
Countries: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela
Start Date: End of Sep 2022
Duration: 443 days
Impact: Medium impact for agricultural drought in 1392133 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Detailed event map. European Union, 2023. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 330 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

Unprecedented drought in the Amazon threatens to release huge stores o ... 2023-12-07T17:36+0100.

Disclosure statement. Philip Fearnside does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appo
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Unprecedented drought in the Amazon threatens to release huge stores o ... 2023-12-07T13:50+0100.

Date: 2023-12-07 12:29 Author: Gemma Ware, Editor and Co-Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation Original article: https://theconversation.com/unprecedented-drought-in-the-amazon-threatens-to-release-huge-stores-of-carbon-po
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Climate crisis: Researchers call for stricter definition of the 1.52023-12-07T12:00+0100.

2023-12-07T10:57:48.583Z. Highlights: Researchers call for stricter definition of the 1.5 degrees of global warming. So far, years have to pass before it would be clear that it has been exceeded. Researchers from the Met Office and the Univ
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Prolonged drought brings unprecedented changes to Amazonian communitie ... 2023-12-06T21:11+0100.

SANTARÉM, Brazil — It was the first time in his life that Robson Chaves de Souza had seen the Tapajós River so far back from the shore. In October, the sandy beach that divides his community and the river became a gaping expanse of parched
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), WMO (1), INFORM (2),