Is unprecedented drought pushing the Amazon to the brink? | BBC News
Oliva tuna is taking us to his village don’t think we’re going to get much further it’s a 5-hour Journey think we’re going to have to get out at least normally that’s supposed to be the hardest bit but we’ll see the Amazon rainforest has been through its worst drought on
Record its rivers lakes and streams drying up so we should be able to pass through here um normally even at the end of the dry season but we’re getting stuck it’s dry and it’s hot Brazil is in the midst of a heat wave oliva’s Community 40 families in
The middle of the Amazon has been badly affected by the drought they’re struggling to access clean water to bathe crops are affected too and getting to and from the city is difficult I think that’s the end of the line we’ve been traveling for nearly 5 hours now and oliviera says we’re not
Even halfway so it looks like we’re going to have to turn back are you worried about how the weather and the climate here is changing for thousands of villages have been cut off by this drought over 100,000 people but scientists are worried that this is an indication of something even more
Catastrophic an ecological disaster and there are signs in two major lakes dolphins have been turning up dead and what happened this year is something that we’ve never seen before nobody’s been seen before it’s unprecedented we are used to seeing Dolphins frolicking in the lake every
Day and we go by them and we see babies and everything and all of a sudden one day we woke woke up and there were 20 carcasses along the shores and then 5 days later we had 70 carcasses it was just devastating devastating it was such a shock that the
Brazilian government sent an emergency team to try to figure out what was happening in some places the water was up to 40.9 De C 3° higher than human and dolphin body temperature what do you do that’s where you you live and all of a sudden you’re you’re in the middle of
The soup and you can’t get away you’ve lived in the Amazon for a long time for 30 years have you ever seen anything like this drout never never never never even thought about it the fear is that the forest is racing towards a theoretical Tipping Point in the vast Amazon water
Evaporates from the trees to form rainclouds and in this way it feeds itself the water it needs to sustain life if vast suedes of the forest die it may not be able to do that and the Amazon would keep dying and faster in a catastrophic feedback loop this is
The heart of the Amazon and this is what the air is like just thick with smoke you can smell it more signs that the forest is losing the ability to recover when it’s dry small fires set to clear land for planting burn out of control the Amazon saw more fires in the past
Year in its primary or untouched Forest we have lots of fires if you can see in the morning you can you can hardly see anything here because it’s so smuggy and and we can actually feel it you know we’ve been coughing a lot scientists you know have been saying for years that
This was going to happen to the Amazon in 2030 2050 just getting worse and worse and that we were going to be like Savannah which is the the dry areas but I never expected to see it and this dramatically it was just too quick you know it happened just like that and you
Didn’t think it would happen in your lifetime no we live in the water we depend on the water to drink to bathe to uh travel for everything and and the water is much less About 177% of the Amazon has been deforested since the 1970s and if that figure hits 25% and Global temperature rises more than 2.5 de C then scientists say the Tipping Point could be triggered it would be a disaster for millions of people south of the Amazon
Who rely on it to produce rainfall and for the billions of us who rely on the rainforest to help keep the planet cool the Amazon stores around 150 billion metric tons of carbon do we have rain yes finally but perhaps not for long yeah not enough well the climatologists are saying this route
Will continue Flavia Costa researches the health of plants and trees in the forest we got to see some plants that are already signing uh showing signs of being bad some colleagues that are flying drones they say they can see also uh uh canopies that are completely defoliated it’s too soon to assess what
This drad has done to the Amazon but the last big one in 2015 can give us a clue we have seen very large mortality in the last drought where when on average the Amazon sto it to function as a carbon sink and we mostly spack the same now it’s is
Sad yeah there might be a moment where the forest starts to lose the capacity to recover but this is probably not widespread so some regions will probably become saas but there there are pockets of forest that probably will remain with the rains here now the forest can
Recover but next year another drought is predicted and the question is can it recover enough we always say you know these animals are Sentinels U because they feel first what’s going to come to us and that’s why I say it’s a slap on the face because it’s happening to them
It’s going to happen to us are you scared well I am because because not only because of the forest I I live here I understand the drama of the population imagine if every 5 years we have a drought and each drought is a bit worse than the before then the forest
May really not stand and we might see this tipping points faster than what we were expecting for Fore fore Fore
In the past few months the Amazon rainforest has experienced the worst drought on record.
One of its main rivers reached its lowest level since records began – 121 years ago.
Villages became unreachable, wildfires raged in the middle of dense forest and wildlife died.
Many scientists are worried that events like these are helping to push the world’s biggest forest to a point of no return.
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this is what happens when you cut down the rain forest. less trees = less rain
Unpredented since when? Ever or just since man has been recording it?
It's has not been this bad in more than 12,000 years….
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A rain forest (formally) the size of the Amazon creates its own climate, through the incredible amount of transpiration. So this drought is most likely due to the insane amount of deforestation, and might even become the norm and eventually turn the amazon into a desert!
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Thank Jair Bolsanaro for pat of this. Record deforestation in the interest of farming to feed China.
This is how the Sahara, Arabian deserts came about. No surprise there
We did this to ourselves.
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Sadly the Amazon has been under stress for decades now, the Amazon use to be able to self maintain because its massive ecosystem would allow it to selft contain. But with years of logging, mining activity and cattle farming, im afraid we are at a point of no return. The droughts is just the beginning Sadly 😢