Why is the Amazon rainforest drying up?
Science Weekly
The Guardian
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🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:57.8 | lives in the Brazilian state of Para on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. |
| 1:02.1 | Hei, come on. |
| 1:04.0 | And like most days, he's taking his dog, Frida, down to the river for a walk. |
| 1:09.0 | It's always one of the highlights of the day, but in the last week or so, it's become a little bit depressing to be honest. |
| 1:20.0 | The landscape isn't as it usually looks. |
| 1:24.0 | Even the sound of the forest is different. |
| 1:29.0 | There are fewer insects and birds |
| 1:32.0 | and my feet make a different noise compared to usual. And the reason is |
| 1:37.4 | because we are in one of the worst dry seasons in living memory. |
| 1:43.0 | On a normal day, he'd be out kayaking, |
| 1:46.0 | but now the river is just ankle deep, |
| 1:49.0 | and in a region known for its blue skies and powerful thunderstorms, the change is hard to ignore. |
| 1:55.0 | The sky above me now is the color of concrete gray. |
| 2:01.0 | It's not factory smokestacks or even car exhaust. The reason the sky is this |
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