The river port in Manaus, the largest city in the Amazon rainforest, has reached its lowest level since 1902 due to a persistent drought. This is causing disruptions to grain exports and essential supplies, mirroring last year's humanitarian crisis. Climate change is identified as the main driver of this severe drought.
The river port in the Amazon rainforest's largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought drains waterways and snarls transport of grain exports and essential supplies that are the region's lifeline.
“This is now the most severe drought in over 120 years of measurement at the Port of Manaus,“ said Valmir Mendonca, the port's head of operations, who said the river level is likely to keep falling for another week or two. The Rio Negro is a major tributary of the Amazon River, the world's largest river by volume. The port sits near the “meeting of the waters” where the black water of the Negro meets the sandy-colored Solimoes, which also hit a record low this week.
National disaster monitoring agency Cemaden has already called the drought Brazil's worst such event since at least the 1950s.
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