Manaus is the Amazon’s largest city, an incongruous urban metropolis in the middle of the jungle and a major port for seafaring vessels that’s 932 mile (1500km) from the ocean. The Amazonian rainforest has a population density half that of Mongolia, but the journey there invariably begins in (or passes through) this bustling city. Don’t be surprised if you feel a little out of whack. Manaus Back to topAttractionsMust-see attractionsJardim Botânico Adolpho Ducke this 'garden' is actually the world’s largest urban forest There's a network of five short trails (guides and closed shoes… Teatro Amazonas This gorgeous theater was built at the height of the rubber boom Encontro das Águas the warm dark Rio Negro pours into the cool creamy Rio Solimões Museu Amazônico the Museu Amazônico has a small but excellent collection of indigenous items and artifacts from around the Amazon Parque Ecologico Januari As close as you'll get to experiencing a real Amazonian ecosystem on a half-day trip from Manaus Praia da Lua Manaus’ best beach has fine white sand and tea-colored water and can be coupled with a visit to the Museu do Seringal for a nice city escape Mercado Municipal Adolfo Lisboa Manaus' historic city market was inaugurated in 1882 a downscaled replica of Paris' famed Les Halles market Museu do Seringal Vila Paraíso Located on the grounds of a former rubber-baron estate this museum includes tours of the historic townhouse a replica rubber-tapper shack and smokehouse… Exploring remote Manaus and the Amazon rainforest isn’t as hard at it seems – if you follow these helpful tips Get to the heart of Manaus with one of our in-depth Visit in ShopBrazil $28.99 Visit in ShopRio de Janeiro $21.99 Go to checkout (0 items)in partnership with getyourguide No part of this site may be reproduced without our written permission Orion Magazine BEFORE I WENT TO Manaus, a port city in Brazil’s Amazonian rainforest, I knew one thing about it, and was not sure if it was even true. It was the story dramatized in Werner Herzog’s titular film about the mad half Irishman known as Fitzcarraldo Fitzcarraldo’s tropical fever dream of bringing opera to Iquitos would only be realized if he could obtain a lease on a rubber field the only one yet unclaimed by colonial land-grabbers Such was his mad obsession that he resolved to bypass the blockage by hauling his steamship over a mountain to reach the land The presumed fortune from rubber extraction would enable him to pursue his vision of financing a second opera house in the jungle some nine hundred miles downriver from Iquitos The movie begins with Fitzcarraldo and his paramour pushing their way into the sparkling new opera house in Manaus by pleading with the guard “For two days and two nights I have rowed to see [Enrico] Caruso at least once in my life!” Mud-stained midway through his virtuoso performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Ernani My decades-ago viewing of Fitzcarraldo had planted in me a sapling of curiosity for the otherwise preposterous notion that there may be an actual European-style opera house deep in the Amazonian jungle When I learned I would be passing through Manaus I realized that verifying its existence was a sort of obsession of my own often seek phenomena we are not certain are real but in twenty-first-century style: on an expedition ship I boarded almost four thousand miles earlier in Rio de Janeiro on assignment for a magazine I had three notebooks and forty-seven recorded interviews to wrangle into narrative prose slow down the pulse of my reporter’s heart and clear the tarmac for writing there remained barely a kernel of energy with which to detour and look for the mythical theater The Seabourn Venture dropped me off at the Port of Manaus but I had one more wonder of the river yet to see The captain informed us that these gentle mammals were somewhat habituated to human presence where we were heading But there was no preparing for what happened after I arrived and scaled a ladder from the dock into waist-deep river Encountering one of the animal kingdom’s most fantastical beasts up close is an unquantifiable thrill When that happens in the planet’s most biodiverse and fragile ecosystem my balance had not recovered from a serious case of COVID-19 four weeks prior to my departure for Brazil and toppled like a felled ash tree onto my bedroom floor The residual effects were subtle but distinct The Amazon’s sticky swelter had rendered me at times dizzy and disoriented low-blood-pressure had turned into crashing waterfalls in my cranium and I sometimes needed to steady myself on walls and railings straight into an iron pole holding up the roof The force tore a vertical gash from my temple down over my cheekbone and sunscreen mixed with silty water from the Amazon only a couple of semi-cold cans of Coke that were pressed into service to relieve the swelling I found some butterfly bandages in my luggage and affixed four of them across my fresh wound hoping my decision to forego the clinic for stitches would not leave me disfigured My short time in Manaus was suddenly reduced to the essentials: bath I had no idea how I would begin to process the layered experience of the Amazon the sheer precariousness and vulnerability of it and all its people and the prospect of that task made my head thrum ever stronger I was prepared to see the grim remains of a forgotten city What I saw instead were vibrant neoclassical buildings and wide boulevards tidy green parks lined with vendors slicing passion fruit just across from my hotel: the opera house Its tiled dome cut a magnificent yellow half circle into the sky something that might have been fictitious revealed itself to be transcendently true was a quivering pool of excitement when he first beheld the opera house that was his singular passion to duplicate and many elements of the original building remain It was the sort of refined home a grandee such as the opera manager in the film might have lived in A chalkboard at the bar listed caipirinha flavors: pineapple But the tang of fresh orange juice tempted me before I gathered my bags and rode the elevator to my room The absurd contusions on my head throbbed pitilessly but plantain gnocchi at the upstairs Fitzcarraldo bistro filled me with satisfaction and sustenance It had been two weeks since I had slept on land white sheets—I rolled on river waves in my bed At breakfast, I dug out the slim novel I had carried to Brazil, The Emperor of the Amazon by Márcio Souza, a Manaus native. It satirizes in brutal detail the imperial excesses of the nineteenth-century Europeans, and includes the ludicrous notion that the Teatro Amazonas that “megalithic colossus,” was too elaborate too extraordinary a building to have been built by human hands I waved off the inevitable questions about it We started in the opposite direction of the opera house and he walked me through the city and its tumultuous history Manaus was the world center of the rubber trade which had created unparalleled wealth along the Amazon Basin “Life in Manaus was twice as expensive as in Paris,” Souza wrote Manaus had the world’s largest per capita consumption of diamonds horses hitched to carriages drank champagne from silver buckets It was one of the first cities in South America with running water spectacular riches amassed by European settlers at the expense of the Indigenous population The man was ruthlessly chasing the same money from the same source cruelly exploiting Native labor in a quest for wealth through theft of seeds of the Brazilian rubber tree the industry began to shift to the British Empire and the fat-cat rubber barons it forged with their fat-cat rubber dreams for Manaus—the people that populated the fictional Fitzcarraldo’s world—went bust played by an actor whose own director called him a “monster and a great pestilence,” and who is alleged to have abused his own daughter to believe his portrayal of a man so selfish that Native people die as he single-mindedly tries to actualize his dream brilliant lunacy when he cruises into a jungle settlement greeting the wary and potentially hostile Native people with Caruso singing Giuseppe Verdi blaring from a gramophone on the deck of his riverboat the boom years were followed by decades of ruin and neglect It is a free trade zone with a huge industrial economic base; one of Brazil’s most inventive gastronomic centers; and last a parable of colonial profiteering and abandonment The city is embellished with temples from another time today’s pockmarked streets once possibly paved with gold ingots We strolled past the rubber magnates’ former palaces then under the intricate ironwork at the Adolpho Lisboa Market—designed by Gustave Eiffel (yes of tower fame) during a time when Manaus’s new aristocracy was Europeanizing the capital of the state of Amazonas with ever bolder ever more expensive and impractical monuments to their wealth WE WANDERED on through streets and at last belle époque Teatro Amazonas on Plaza San Sebastián The building seemed utterly incongruous in its tropical setting like a woman at the beach dolled up in sapphires and a velvet gown as if to defy precisely those who doubted such an architectural and geographical conundrum might ever exist The dome features 36,000 Alsatian tiles colored like the Brazilian flag and outlines a contrast to the cloudless tropical blue The theater was conceived and built as a replica of Milan’s La Scala and frescoes by a celebrated Roman painter the theater underwent a lengthy renovation it shone and I felt somewhat disrespectful in my dirty athleisure and muddy sneakers I imagined women gliding on the staircase in silk gloves cooling their necks with a Victorian lace fan “People say he was crazy,” Gilton says about the real Carlos Fitzcarrald who forced enslaved Indigenous people to transport his steamship over a mountain “He tried to go over the rivers and bring Europe back to the Peruvian Amazon!” He nodded with Fitzcarraldo and his girlfriend gate-crashing the performance of Verdi’s Ernani remains apocryphal—there is no proof Enrico Caruso ever performed at the Teatro Amazonas this story is part of the history of Manaus,” said Gilton It carries forward its own rendition of truth for those who choose to believe or who have a kernel of a scene from a movie lodged in their head for decades and later attempt to walk through it on solid ground the contusions on the side of my face began to pound I realized with an ache of regret that I needed to cross the street to lie down at the hotel he opened the door and we tiptoed into the theater cool sanctum glazed in gold leaf and sheathed in burgundy velvet Members of the orchestra were assembled on stage It was that uniquely chaotic discordance that promises nothing less than the strictest of order these sounds and the individuals who made them would magically unite into a piece of music an oboe released a single thread of an A note They were rehearsing Donizetti’s Anna Bolena for the annual opera festival that would take place here in just a few weeks I stood in the same spot Kinski/Fitzcarraldo had done when he was mesmerized by the actor playing Caruso It was impossible not to look up at the Murano glass chandelier where the four frescoes marrying mythical/classical characters with Indigenous ones Herzog pans a reclining nude draped in pink blossoms on the ceiling where men in tailcoats and women in taffeta applaud the magic that has been conjured in their river town and all the musicians wore relaxed clothing—shorts and listened while the music swirled like a current around me I sidled to an orchestra seat and sat alone in the empty theater that nevertheless gave the impression of being full melting into the sudden flow of the sopranos’ voices the plink of harp and a rising surge of strings After the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) held hearings for its climate Advisory Opinion and civil society united to create the Manaus Declaration on Human Rights in the Climate Emergency This Declaration calls on the Court to articulate minimum standards for safeguarding human rights in the context of the climate crisis The Manaus Declaration on Human Rights in the Climate Emergency was presented to the Court by nearly 400 Indigenous Peoples urging it to clarify what human rights law requires of States to protect people and the environment from the most pressing crisis of our time The declaration aims for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to strengthen international climate justice and guide policies toward sustainable practices It urges the Court to adopt the strongest possible Advisory Opinion to influence future-related legal frameworks Read the declaration Read the press release. 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All rights reserved When The Associated Press photographed the Negro River and surrounding areas in late June and early July it was nearly 27 meters (88.5 feet) deep at the port in Manaus If the pace at which the Negro has been dropping continues within a week it will break the record for the lowest level in 122 years of monitoring Riverine communities around Manaus and elsewhere in the Amazon have been left stranded Authorities have been distributing potable water and water purification systems Passenger boats and supply ships are struggling to navigate the shallows Amazonas state’s fishing federation has warned that limited access to nearby traditional fishing areas is imperiling their livelihoods diminishing supply of the region’s mainstay food and boosting prices The cost of bottled water and other goods in far-flung areas has surged Water levels in Brazil’s Amazon always rise and fall with its rainy and dry seasons — but not like this the Negro River should still be around 21 meters deep at the Manaus port according to the nation’s geologic service And all of the major rivers are at critical levels with the most dramatic decline at the Madeira River On Monday at the measuring site in the city of Porto Velho the Madeira’s level fell to just 25 centimeters (about 10 inches) and more than 3 meters below the historic average for the day and rivers were expected to stay low well into October Part of the Sao Raimundo that connects to the Negro River is visible amid a drought in Manaus Part of the Sao Raimundo that connects to the Negro River is visible in Manaus Part of the Educandos that connects to the Negro River is visible amid a drought in Manaus Part of the Educandos that connects to the Negro River is visible in Manaus Brazil — Dark clouds rumble over the tiny Amazon River community of Nossa Senhora do Livramento you might think that residents in this parched and isolated town of about 350 families would be elated that it's finally raining But many just shrug at the brief torrential downpour Some liken it to that burst of energy a patient can get moments before death Such pessimism is understandable given the devastation this and hundreds of other communities have been experiencing throughout the Amazon Dependent on its vast riverways for nearly everything millions of residents have been left high and dry In the more than 100 years since river levels have been monitored, never has the mighty Amazon and the major tributaries of the world's largest river system recorded such little rainfall. In October, the Rio Negro hit the lowest levels since records were first kept in 1902 And now as the annual dry season winds down anxiety is growing as to whether the rains will come and bring enough water to refill the riverways Renato Senna, a climatologist at Brazil's National Institute for Amazon Research says two years of unprecedented drought will be tough to overcome in just one rainy season Climate change and increased deforestation are leading contributors to the drought. On top of that, the El Niño weather pattern which warms the Pacific Ocean waters off South America "The rate at which the Amazon is drying up is scary and much faster than anyone predicted," says Senna. In some parts of the Amazon, the annual dry season is now lasting one month longer than it did in the 1970s, according to researchers Senna says it's too soon to predict whether the upcoming expected La Niña will be stronger than normal and enough to refill the rivers The town is about a 30-minute boat ride up the Rio Negro from the Amazon's sprawling city of Manaus Dos Santos stands on the now brittle banks of what was a large creek where boats used to be able to power right up to Nossa Senhora do Livramento's main plaza with tall bright green grass covering the once-submerged ground A few stranded boats are tied to far-off trees he hasn't had much construction or electrical work he hauls goods to town from the community's pier It's now a 20 to 30-minute walk to town: first crossing the newly exposed beach winding through tall trees that were once nearly submerged by the river As community leader Paulo Roberto Ferreira da Silva walks the trail he points to white marks more than 13 feet overhead on the trees where the water line used to reach large beaches and huge sandbars have emerged on the Amazon River and its tributaries fresh drinking water and all types of commerce More than 60 municipalities have declared a state of emergency under the drought Boat operator João Aroldo Vieira lives outside the state capital of Manaus He maneuvers his small rig around a huge sandbar that has emerged at the popular point where the black waters of the Rio Negro meet the pale-green Amazon River He says watching the water disappear is sad "The land just keeps growing and there is not enough river for us to move." His community has been hit really hard by the drought Officials are dredging parts of the Amazon to keep the waterways open and have increased the number of ferries crossing the rivers to access the limited highways between major cities Isair Lazaretti is waiting on a barge to cross the Rio Negro into Manaus where he'll get on one of the only roads available to transport his load of steel wiring He prefers taking a barge down the river when it's full and can support bigger loads He recently lost an axle on the bumpy roads of the Amazon not to mention the exhaustion of the long lonely drives The drought has had a punishing impact on food prices too. At Manaus' giant fish market, monger Dantas Abreu sells one of the Amazon's largest fishes, the pirarucu He estimates he's lost about half of his clientele "I'm 50 years old and I've never seen two droughts like these before," he says Abreu has two kids and worries about their future with more severe weather "but our children will feel it much more." Become an NPR sponsor InfoAmazonia Extreme drought creates new park in Manaus but abnormal vegetation puts ecological balance at risk Manaus residents take advantage of the grass that has appeared during the dry season But as the river returns to its normal level the vegetation could cause environmental imbalance and even spread disease On a Saturday afternoon during the Amazon’s dry season dozens of Manaus residents flocked to the banks of the Rio Negro Teenagers took advantage of the space to play soccer while couples lounging in beach chairs listened to the bird calls that now mixed with funk music coming from speakers The new Manaus attaction brings an irony: despite being a “green” leisure space it is the result of the historic drought that took the Rio Negro to the lowest levels in its history leaving hectares of land exposed for grasses to flourish The landscape includes rock formations and a view of the waters under the shadow of the Journalist Phelippe Daou bridge an example of the impact that climate change could have on the Amazon in the coming years has driven some of the region’s main rivers to their lowest levels in 122 years The crisis has deprived communities of their only source of drinking water hundreds of thousands of people have been impacted by the drought in the state of Amazonas alone Manaus doesn’t have many green spaces like this new “park.” Despite being located within the Amazon biome the city has one of the lowest tree canopy rates among Brazilian capitals and has only a handful of parks spread among its busy and congested roads the residents of Manaus discovered the positive side of the grass that appeared near the Rio Negro and began crossing the Jornalista Phelippe Daou bridge experts interviewed by InfoAmazonia warn that the decomposition of grasses could unbalance the aquatic ecosystem and favor the spread of diseases a biologist at the National Amazon Research Institute (INPA) explained that the growth of grasses in previously submerged areas is a relatively common phenomenon in the Amazon “All the time there are parts of the river being ‘broken’ and others being formed,” she said “The natural process begins with grasses; then slightly larger plants appear it is uncommon for this phenomenon to occur on dry riverbanks that will soon be submerged again such as in the area close to the bridge where the natural park was formed “The extent to which this is happening now is out of the ordinary but an area that is normally underwater and that is only experiencing this colonization [of plants] because the river level has dropped too much.” but an area that is normally underwater and that is only experiencing this colonization [of plants] because the river level has dropped too much these grasses can block part of the water flow creating breeding sites forf disease-carrying mosquitoes the plants can make it difficult for sunlight to enter the river causing significant changes to the ecosystem The decomposition of submerged grasses also reduces the oxygen and pH levels of the water making it unsuitable for both human consumption and aquatic fauna Costa explained that some environmental impacts may be temporary such as the increase in mosquitoes and the potential for the emergence of diseases resulting from the consumption of non-potable water can be long-lasting and need to be monitored by the government Manaus residents reported mixed feelings regarding the new park given the environmental circumstances that created it who was on the riverbank teaching his son how to fish one November afternoon said that despite the park’s pleasant environment the drought brought “more harm than good.” said that “People in Manaus really miss an environment like this talk and have fun.” He said that the natural park is “beautiful,” but “strange and also scary.” leader of the Trees of the Asphalt project a research group at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) dedicated to the study of urban vegetation there are historical reasons why Manaus is not a tree-lined city the European colonizers of the city associated vegetation with primitivism and began to plan the city “saying that progress is concrete.” This early urban planning vision later combined with the city’s rapid and horizontal growth especially after the creation of the Free Trade Zone and the migration of rural workers to Manaus a characteristic of [unauthorized] invasion was created in the city of Manaus,” said Arruda This made it difficult for the government to later claim space from residents to build parks through the city “Parks create a harmonious natural environment close to the individual Studies already show that these environments bring many benefits to humans both for physical and mental health,” said Arruda But the expert said that she was “sad” that the new park was only created due to an environmental crisis such as the recent drought.  had the same view: “the population is so out of options that a disaster like the drought of 2023 and 2024 needs to happen for people to have a place to relax.” Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Study published in the journal ‘Nature’ sought to understand how different parts of the forest respond to drought The research was led by a Brazilian scientist in partnership with 80 other authors and surveyed the conditions of 540 trees of 129 different species scattered across Brazil Specialists focus on the difficulties the new 2023 administration faces to reach the goal promised by the Bolsonaro administration at COP26 last year Escalating deforestation rates could keep Brazil from carrying out its promise By visiting this site, you agree to the use of cookies, which are designed to improve your experience and are used for the purpose of analytics and personalization. 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There are three ways to set in and out points for a clip: Check your selection with the "Preview Clip" option If you are editing the times of an existing clip, you may only set a start and end time within the original clip boundaries NewsletterExplore the best restaurants After a career climbing the culinary ladder in her hometown of São Paulo chef Débora Shornik’s move to Manaus was inspired by her love of the kaleidoscopic larder of Brazil’s Amazonian region a fish-packed menu filled with locally sourced ingredients changes with the seasons but always brings the bounty of the forest to the fore Respecting the Amazon’s cultural and environmental heritage Shornik celebrates indigenous cooking methods utilising traditional ingredients including pirarucu fish a fermented manioc-based sauce with a citrussy in eye-catching dishes such as the restaurant’s signature fried river sardine and grilled freshwater fish The restaurant’s name refers to a traditional fermented drink produced by Indigenous communities in the region airy dining room offers a little forest delight thanks to the numerous hanging plants above diners’ heads Shornik also runs two other restaurants in Novo Airão This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Organized crime is increasingly contributing not only to deforestation in the region but also to a surge of violence in Amazon cities Unemployment is also higher than the national average and half of those who do have jobs work in the informal sector Predictably, large Amazonian cities such as Belém, Manaus, and Porto Velho are grappling with sharp increases in violent crime—but so are many of its smaller and medium-sized towns like Altamira In 2023, nine of Brazil’s 30 most murderous cities were in the Amazon, with an average urban murder rate of over 34 per 100,000, 13% higher than the national urban rate. While homicide rates have declined in most of Brazil since 2017 they have continued to rise in many Amazon municipalities Brazilian syndicates like the First Capital Command (PCC) and Red Command (CV) have diffused into the Amazon from southern cities such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro These factions and their affiliates are recruiting locals into their ranks especially adolescents with limited job prospects The former directs additional resources to fighting environment crime while the latter expands military and police action across 34 bases in the Amazon there is no comprehensive national or regional strategy to improve public security and safety in the urban Amazon One reason for this is constitutional: State governments control law enforcement and criminal justice with cities typically less involved in the public security agenda though its outcomes are not publicly reported While there is growing attention to the legitimate development needs of the urban Amazon the reality is that most of its hundreds of small mid-sized and large cities and towns still lack the necessary plans especially if Brazil intends to meet its ambitious climate and nature targets by 2030 and beyond.  Reading Time: 4 minutesMuggah is a co-founder and research director of the Igarapé Institute, a leading think tank in Brazil. 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Previously covered sports - including soccer and Formula One - for Brazilian radios and websites. 20246:28 PM UTCIn pictures: Historic drought marks Amazon's parched landscapeAccording to the National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters the current drought is the most intense and widespread Brazil has experienced since at least the 1950s stands on the dry bed of a Tapajos river during the intense drought that hits the Amazon at Prainha 1 community in Tapajos National Forest [2/29]A drone view shows fishermen dragging a boat on the dry bed of Lake Aleixo during what the national disaster monitoring agency Cemaden has already called Brazil's worst drought since at least the 1950s [3/29]Port worker Francisco Ferreira measures the level of the Rio Negro at the Porto de Manaus as the river reaches its lowest point in its history during the most intense and widespread drought the country has experienced since records began in 1950 [5/29]A woman carries water delivered by the civil defense to the isolated villages at the dry Lake Puraquequara during the most intense and widespread drought Brazil has experienced since records began in 1950 in San Francisco do Maina in Manaus [6/29]A drone view shows floating houses and boats on the dry bed of Lake Aleixo during what the national disaster monitoring agency Cemaden has already called Brazil's worst drought since at least the 1950s [8/29]A drone view shows a puddle of water on a part of the dry bed of the Tapajos river during the intense drought that hits the Amazon [9/29]A fishing net is seen near Tapajos river during the intense drought that hits the Amazon [10/29]A drone view shows the dry bed of Rio Negro as the river reached its lowest point in its history during the most intense and widespread drought the country has experienced since records began in 1950 [11/29]A drone view shows moored boats at the dry banks of Rio Amazonas during a drought in Santarem [12/29]A drone view shows floating houses stranded on the Rio Negro as the river reached its lowest point in its history during the most intense and widespread drought the country has experienced since records began in 1950 [13/29]A drone view shows sandbanks due to the worst in history drought affecting the Madeira River in Humaita [14/29]A drone view shows fishermen pushing an aluminium canoe to try to go fishing in the middle of the dry bed of the Puraquequara lake caused by severe drought in the Amazon [15/29]A drone view of a destroyed port after the worst-ever recorded drought provoked a landslide on the banks of the Solimoes River in Manacapuru [16/29]A drone view shows boats and floating houses aground on the dry bed of the Puraquequara lake caused by severe drought in the Amazon [17/29]A fish carcass is seen on a sandbank that emerged in the middle of the Solimoes River in the Amazon Basin which is suffering from the worst drought on record [19/29]Cattle next to a burned tree following fires in the Amazon town of Labrea [20/29]A drone view shows a boat and floating houses on the dry bed of Lake Aleixo during what the national disaster monitoring agency Cemaden has already called Brazil's worst drought since at least the 1950s More in this CollectionSee all picturesItem 21 of 29 A drone view shows stranded boats over the sandbanks exposed due to drought at the Solimoes River one of the largest tributaries of the Amazon River REUTERS/Bruno Kelly[21/29]A drone view shows stranded boats over the sandbanks exposed due to drought at the Solimoes River © 2025 Reuters. All rights reserved We're sorry but the page you're looking for is not on our website SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, August 20, 2024 – Today, a coalition comprising over 400 communities, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, and representatives of civil society presented the “Manaus Declaration on Human Rights in the Climate Emergency” to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) The widely endorsed declaration calls on the Court to articulate in its forthcoming Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights minimum standards for respecting and protecting human rights in the context of the climate crisis It draws upon the insights of more than 150 participants who contributed during the public hearings on the process of the Advisory Opinion mentioned served as a forum for the presentation of compelling testimonies from individuals and entire communities impacted by the climate emergency there was a strong emphasis on the expectation that the Court would issue a robust advisory opinion aimed at ensuring the protection of both people and the planet The Declaration urges the Court to clarify the human rights obligations of States and reinforce the accountability of corporations and financial actors for their role in the climate crisis “The role played by the IACtHR Advisory Opinion is strategic at a historic moment for climate justice globally The Court’s decision can reinforce and expand on what has already been established by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on the obligations to protect the oceans from climate change It will undoubtedly influence the subsequent interpretation of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the duties of States to protect communities and the planet in the face of the climate crisis,” said Marcella Ribeiro coordinator of the Human Rights and Environment Program of the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense “The standards set by the Court will set new paradigms for access to justice in the context of the triple planetary crisis as well as laws and policies inside and outside the continent this decision has great potential to help overcome the political impasse in the international climate negotiations,” she added “The Manaus Declaration also addresses corporate responsibility for the crisis We urge the Court to reinforce States’ obligations to regulate corporate actors and ensure that those responsible for human rights violations related to the climate crisis are held accountable,” said Luisa Gómez Betancur senior attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) “Consistent with the polluter pays principle in international law fossil fuel and agribusiness companies that are the primary drivers of climate change must cover the costs of mitigation and adaptation as well as provide full reparation to victims for climate harm.” “Those supporting the Declaration are urging the IACtHR to take a strong and forward-thinking stance This approach should hold the primary contributors to the climate crisis accountable guide inter-American policies toward environmentally sustainable economies “We hope that by listening to the testimonies of those of us who suffer the worst consequences of the climate emergency the IACtHR will heed our call and order the States to respect our right to self-determination and the way in which we relate to our territories we join our voices to the Manaus declaration to remind the Court of the unique opportunity it has to mark a before and after in the fight for climate justice and the protection of our rights,” said Everildys Córdoba Borja legal representative of the Community Council of Black Communities of the Tolo River Basin and Southern Coastal Zone (COCOMASUR) Este comunicado está disponible en español aquí. For press inquiries, interviews, or more information, please contact: 20242:09 PM UTCHistoric drought marks Amazon's parched landscapeAccording to the National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters the current drought is the most intense and widespread Brazil has experienced since records began in 1950 [1/38]A drone view shows boats stranded on the Rio Negro as the river reached its lowest point in its history during the most intense and widespread drought the country has experienced since records began in 1950 [2/38]A woman carries water delivered by the civil defense to the isolated villages at the dry Lake Puraquequara during the most intense and widespread drought Brazil has experienced since records began in 1950 in San Francisco do Maina in Manaus [3/38]A drone view shows fishermen pushing an aluminium canoe to try to go fishing [5/38]A drone view shows boats and floating houses aground on the dry bed of the Puraquequara lake caused by severe drought in the Amazon [6/38]A fish carcass is seen on a sandbank that emerged in the middle of the Solimoes River in the Amazon Basin [8/38]Cattle next to a burned tree following fires in the Amazon town of Labrea [9/38]A drone view shows a fire in Humaita [10/38]Children play on the sandbanks of the Madeira river during the worst drought of the river in history [11/38]A drone view shows stranded boats over the sandbanks exposed due to drought at the Solimoes River [12/38]A view of the devastation caused by a forest fire in the Amazon in an area of the Trans-Amazonian Highway BR230 in Labrea [13/38]A drone view shows floating houses on a dry river in Igarape do Xidarinim during a drought season [14/38]A tree on fire is seen during wildfires in Brasilia National Park [15/38]River dwellers carry water gallons on the sandbanks of the Madeira river to bring to the isolated region of Paraizinho community [16/38]A drone view shows a fire from burning vegetation in Amazon rainforest [17/38]A drone view shows the dry banks of Rio Negro during a drought in the centre of Manaus in the Amazonas state [18/38]A view of a farm near a forest fire in the Amazon in an area of the Trans-Amazonian Highway BR230 in Labrea [19/38]A drone view shows sandbanks due to the drought affecting the Solimoes River in Manacapuru [20/38]A drone view shows sandbanks due to the worst in history drought affecting the Madeira River in Humaita This image is AI-Generated (X)Emerging storyRecently A Facebook user posted the photo with the caption A place where modern human civilization abruptly stops replaced by the immense Amazon rainforest.” This is the city of Manaus, Brazil. A place where modern human civilization abruptly stops, replaced by the immense Amazon rainforest. pic.twitter.com/ruwQ5TcA8C — The Figen (@TheFigen_) March 14, 2025 Two enterprising port terminal operators at the Brazilian jungle port of Manaus have come up with a unique way to keep containerised cargoes flowing during an unprecedented drought in the Amazonas region Superterminais and Porto Chibatao have moved a sizeable chunk of their port facilities and equipment by barge from Manaus located some 1,580 km from the mouth of the mighty River Amazon (close to the ocean port of Belem) to a location 200 km downriver to meet oceangoing vessels of up to 5,400 TEU capacity mid-river at Itacoatiara the drought was the worst for more than 100 years and the water levels of the Amazon were at their lowest ever,” said logistics provider Grupo Simoes manager for new business ventures Full credit to the two port operators and their logistics users for coming up with an ingenious solution to keep the cargo flowing.” The jungle port of Manaus is hugely important to the Brazilian economy as it hosts a key facility in the guise of the Manaus Economic Free Trade Zone (FTZ) the main employer of the region with more than 110,000 workers and more than 500 national and multi-national companies especially in the electronics and white goods sectors Although for most of the year the Amazon River affords depths of between 30 and 40 m one at Tabocal and the other at Enseada do Rio Madeira Both are near river islands which have a high-season depth of around 12 m and a low depth of 9 m or less making it difficult for oceangoing vessels to navigate past them Three cabotage and three deepsea services operated by Maersk Line and Hapag Lloyd plus their Brazilian subsidiaries kept vessels moving beyond the choke points once the vessel carrying capacity hit below 40% so everything went by barge from Belem and Pecem which is even further away [some 2,900 km],” said one line manager who was working for Maersk at the time Using barges from such faraway transhipment ports is time consuming and expensive According to Superterminais chief executive Marcello Di Gregorio the Brazilian government lost around Reais1.6Bn (US$281M) in tax revenues because of lost cargoes due to last year’s drought; which hit between September 2023 and January of this year Honda and Panasonic couldn’t keep factory lines running and had to enact temporary lay-offs which hurt the local and national economies in the run up to Christmas,” said the executive we went three months without receiving a vessel so we had to try and find a solution to stop this happening again,” added Mr Di Gregorio He proudly told RMM Superterminais spent Reais 55M on setting up a floatine port at Itacoatiara some 200 km downstream from its Manaus home base Tugs from SC Navegação pulled four large pontoons with mobile harbour cranes into position and now ONE are hiring their own barge companies to tranship onto Manaus for unloading there on the opposite side of the Amazon river but also near Itacoatiara unloaded half of the boxes and then continued onto Manaus to offload the remainder the river is so low this year that only a handful of vessels made it all the way and now all cargoes are unloaded at Itacoatiara Log-In Logistica board member Julian Thomas who worked for more than 20 years at the helm of Hamburg Sud and Alianca Navegaco said what the two Manaus port operators have done is “a very welcome but mostly experimental exercise” “Superterminais and Porto Chibatao have really stepped up to the plate with these measures with encouragement from their customers and the shipping lines,” said Mr Thomas “Manaus depends so much on cabotage and there is not enough extra truck and barge capacity to cover everything not carried by cabotage shipping the federal government has pledged Reais 93M in a dredging scheme but the local dredgers are inadequate and local logistics and port managers say money is “mostly wasted” as the Amazon river silts up very quickly again Sign up for Riviera’s series of technical and operational webinars and conferences: Brazil’s Grupo ClickIP has launched a new data center in Manaus and launched a new data center unit The telecoms group this week launched a new facility in Manaus is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas “Thank you to everyone who attends the opening celebration of ClickIP Data Centers,” the company said on LinkedIn this week “The cloud computing service has become a reality in the city of Manaus now we offer the largest infrastructure in the North Region in connectivity all this is possible because we have a local installation The company said it invested more than R$20 million ($3.59m) in the project reportedly the first of its kind in the area the facility offers 685 sqm (7,375 sq ft) and 240kW of IT capacity which offer fixed broadband services across Manaus as well as several cities in Amazonas and the State of Pará It has around 100,000 customers across the units According to the co-founders of Grupo ClickIP the project arose from internal demand as there is a lack of data center capacity in the Amazonas region ClickIP Data Centers will also begin offering its cloud computing services to small as well as Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and telecommunications operators our intention was to host our own infrastructure to improve the health of our operation with the significant changes in the market especially thinking about the customer experience We saw the opportunity to market and seek certification which will be a differentiator for our service,” said Reis A version of this story appeared on our Brazilian edition Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. [email protected]DCD is a subsidiary of InfraXmedia Avolta has struck a ten-year duty-free and duty-paid contract at Manaus Airport where it will manage four outlets across more than 1,000sq m of space which serves over 2.8 million passengers annually is a new addition to Avolta’s network in Brazil The offer includes perfumes & cosmetics alongside accessories including fashion items The shops are located within the International and Domestic Departures and Arrivals Terminals As a gateway to international destinations as well as a historical city in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon forest the store designs are locally inspired and offer a strong sense of place Avolta President & CEO for LATAM Enrique Urioste commented: “We are delighted to have been awarded this new contract at Manaus Airport Brazil has a key role in Avolta’s growth in the LATAM region and by leveraging our extensive knowledge and expertise in this region I believe we will be able to create unique and memorable moments for our customers taking the airport’s shopping experience to a new level for the millions of passengers who visit this airport each year “We look forward to working in close partnership with VINCI to develop the retail experience at Manaus–Eduardo Gomes International Airport as we move closer to creating a new travel experience revolution.” Commercial Director for VINCI Airports in Brazil said: “We are pleased to expand the partnership between VINCI Airports and Avolta in Brazil where we have active contracts at Salvador Bahia Airport by bringing an innovative retail experience to Manaus Airport “With the inauguration of a new commercial offering passengers will have access to a diverse mix of international and local products ensuring a unique experience following the terminal’s revitalisation works This collaboration reaffirms VINCI Airports commitment to offering the best shopping options and strengthening tourism in the region.” ✈ The Moodie Davitt Report is the industry’s most popular channel for launching commercial proposals and for publishing the results. 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' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " Predicted lineups are available for the match a few days in advance while the actual lineup will be available about an hour ahead of the match 05 Mar 2025 22:30:00 GMT?Atletico MG won 4–1 over Manaus FC on Wed 05 Mar 2025 22:30:00 GMT.InsightsHaven't lost in 12 matches Atletico MG is playing home against Manaus FC at Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto on Wed The Amazon region of northern Brazil continues to suffer under the worst drought in 120 years resulting in the lowest water level at the Port of Manaus in 122 years A state of emergency has been declared in 62 municipalities along the river The Amazon River is formed near the city of Manaus when the Negro River joins with the Solimoes River which is the largest northern tributary to the Amazon Water levels on the southern tributaries such as the Madeira River and Tapajos River are also record-low Barge operations on the Madeira River have been suspended and barges on the Tapajos River are only being loaded to 60% of capacity Michael Cordonnier says some grain shipments out of Mato Grosso that were scheduled to go north to the Amazon River have been diverted to the Port of Santos in southeastern Brazil at an additional cost of approximately $21 per metric ton More from Pro Farmer. Markets are on the Move to Start the Month of May In a workshop in Manaus indigenous and quilombola communicators exchange knowledge and strengthen oral narratives telegram Join our Telegram channel! telegram More than 30 indigenous and quilombola communicators from collectives in Amazonas Maranhão and Rondônia participated in the second stage of the Popular Communication Workshop of the Wayuri Network of Indigenous Communicators of Rio Negro held in Manaus between March 8 and 14.  Between practical activities and exchanges of experiences participants raised cultural and political issues and strategies for resistance and strengthening their communities and territories through communication tools audio production and its adaptation to other formats The following collectives were represented: Justiça nos Trilhos (MA) Indigenous Communicators of Rondônia (RO) and Mura Indigenous Communicators Network (AM) Under the guidance of Ceará journalist Pâmela Queiroz, creator of Caatinga Podcast and a journalism technician at Rádio Unaé the participants explored the power of oral and multiplatform narratives This was the guiding thread of the conversation on the first day of the meeting where each group was able to present a little of the work carried out in the territory Communicator and activist Sâmela Sateré Mawé opened the dialogue by talking about her trajectory in indigenous communication especially her work on the internet as an activist and digital influencer up until her work in the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (Coiab) and in the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestrality (Anmiga) “It is very important that we are in these spaces because we are the protagonists of these narratives [It is] learning from each other this collective action that we do so well divided into groups and forming small newsrooms the communicators experienced the different stages of production: drafting agendas technical handling of equipment and post-production They were able to learn by observing their relatives in the work and also by practicing communication in classes focused on multilingual journalistic practice” As an opportunity to further practice active listening and interview techniques the program included a visit to two initiatives in Manaus: Sapupema radio the first indigenous communication vehicle in Amazonas led by women and which works to strengthen the identities of indigenous peoples Participants spoke about the role of radio in community and autonomous communication and the challenges in each territory Juliana Albuquerque commented that Sapupema was an inspiration for the creation of the Wayuri web radio and recalled an exchange program held in the same location before its implementation and today it is completing a little over a year on the air” Claudia Ferraz reinforced that the online radio was created to expand the reach of indigenous communication in Rio Negro and reach more and more communities - which total more than 750 in the area covered by the municipalities of São Gabriel da Cachoeira “Our work and our mission is to bring information into our territories and increasingly expand and strengthen our communication” said that the radio station was created after the creation of the TV station also with the aim of further improving communication within the region and was the first quilombola radio station in the region “People ended up listening to the city radio station and ended up not knowing what was happening within our territory communicator and founder of TV Quilombo] had the idea of ​​creating the radio station adds that the idea was so successful that the community soon began to interact requesting songs and the famous “hello” during the program “We are happy that the older people can hear the news from our territory without leaving home And they ask to wait until they get home to hear their song and the hello on their radio,” says Mary The radio station is headquartered in the center of Quilombo Rampa, located near the municipality of Vargem Grande, in Maranhão, and has a coverage of 15 kilometers within the territory (FM, at 105,9 MHz). It can also be heard from anywhere in the country - and the world - through application and radio website Integrated into the Cariri Cultural Center Sérvulo Esmeraldo Unaé radio - which in the language of the Kariri people information and training for the 29 municipalities of the Cariri region of Ceará in dialogue with community radio “We think of training as a main pillar for the multiplication of communicators and community narratives. We believe it is very important for people to be able to build their own communication platforms and communicate what they want from their perspectives,” reinforces Pâmela Queiroz. The radio’s schedule has 19 programs and can be followed on website José Paulo and Juliana Albuquerque presented the program Wayuri web radio - composed of the programs Cacuri on-line Papo da Maloca and Alô Parente - and the program Papo da Maloca which also airs on Wednesdays on Rádio FM O Dia (92,7) the visit to Sapupema was especially important because the communicators had the opportunity to see how a radio station works up close and also to exchange experiences they also discussed maintenance and sustainability of a radio station and also from the perspective of autonomy More than 22 kilometers from the city center is Parque das Tribos, the first indigenous neighborhood in Manaus. It was there that the group went to see the headquarters of the Witoto Institute It's there, in Vanda's backyard, in her House of Ancestral Knowledge, where more than 50 indigenous children in an urban context learn about their mother tongue, spirituality and traditional graphics. Where women come together to create handcrafted pieces and strengthen their memories and identities with the Derequine Studio It is also where workshops and discussion groups on indigenous education and political training are held It was in this space that the communicators were able to learn about the stories and struggles of indigenous women in urban contexts who work both in the institute's initiatives and in the Cozinha Coletiva Boca da Mata a social business that emerged in the midst of the pandemic to provide free poison-free meals to vulnerable families in Parque das Tribos Vanda led her people in song and invited them to mark the dance step “Singing in this city is the most powerful act of resistance we have this is the strength that keeps us alive too what you ate now is part of a process of strengthening this identity “thanks to a lot of struggle and resistance from women like Lutana Kokama which is now considered by the government within the city of Manaus because from the moment we left our territory Parque das Tribos is home to more than 700 families 32 indigenous peoples and 13 languages ​​spoken Climate coordinator for ISA's Rio Nego Program bringing a perspective on climate change and environmental racism provoking reflection on the impacts observed in communities and territories - urban and rural - and discussions on adaptation which has long been practiced and developed by indigenous and traditional peoples The groups got together and defined their agendas based on the stories shared that afternoon and then started interviews with the characters which were later finalized and presented at the end of the workshop program “Visiting Parque das Tribos was an incredible experience for me I had no idea what a struggle those women were going through The words of Vanda Witoto and everyone there inspired me a lot,” says Ya Yudja a communicator at the Xingu + Communicators Network the training provided a great meeting that made it possible to learn about other communication initiatives the specificities of each territory and also the meeting points which was a long-standing desire of the Wayuri Network other production formats that other collectives do was remarkable The importance of indigenous and quilombola communication This union of indigenous and quilombola communicators was very striking.” Mary de Jesus says that learning about new realities and being able to share her people’s knowledge and history was a unique experience to have seen other realities and to see that our reality here inspires many other young people comments that the workshop was very important especially due to the participation of younger communicators concerned with showing the difficulties and good things of each territory in addition to providing knowledge of other tools as well as being able to show her own as an indigenous woman Mayara Mura was the youngest among the participants she was chosen by her leaders to represent the Mura Indigenous Communicators Network and the Mura Indigenous Leadership Organization of Careiro da Várzea (OLIMCV) “I had the opportunity to meet people I already followed and admired a lot and I was also able to learn a lot from people who already have some experience in the communications field,” he says Arewana Juruna is a communicator and filmmaker from the Yudja people and lives in the Tuba-Tuba village He said that it was very interesting to learn about the work of the Wayuri Network and Quilombo Rampa with radio stations since his experience at the Xingu+ Communicators Network is more focused on photography and video Learning more about this tool and also appearing in front of the cameras was a new and positive experience for him.  “It is very important for us to have this exchange the exchange of communicators from the Amazon so that we can share this experience among ourselves non-indigenous and quilombola communicators and also here with the team from the Xingu+ Communicators Network I think that is an important part of it,” he says In addition to technical training, one of the greatest benefits of the initiative, believes journalist Tainã Mansani, Project Coordinator at German Institute for Democracy and Media (Idem) in Brazil it was exactly this connection between the networks of communicators from different states of the Legal Amazon and this connection between these popular journalists did not exist before the workshop This is essential for their stories and challenges to reach further," he highlights which will take place in Belém at the end of the year "We know that many social movements will have difficulty accessing the COP it is essential to strengthen grassroots communicators who are the voice of the communities most impacted by environmental issues," he concludes This activity is part of the project “MEDIA-Brazil: professionalization of indigenous media for the participation of marginalized groups and the empowerment of women in the Amazon” carried out by the Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA) in partnership with the Wayuri Network and the Federation of Indigenous Organizations of Rio Negro (Foirn) with financial support from the Institute for Democracy and Media of Germany (Idem) and German Cooperation (BMZ) The most relevant news for you to form your opinion on the socio-environmental agenda LAST ISSUE 24 de January de 2025 | News Jan 24, 2025 | News produced by IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) will be screened for the first time at the Proteja Talks event the production highlights the impacts of the Rio Negro drought and the smoke from wildfires on the lives of residents in Manaus and surrounding areas it was the most severe drought ever recorded for the river “This documentary reinforces the message of science and Indigenous peoples: we need intact forests to address climate change as well as Indigenous and traditional peoples’ territories are fundamental pillars for adapting to the new climate reality we face,” says André Guimarães the message is clear: we need to see nature as someone who also needs care,” comments Bibiana Garrido IPAM’s Communication Specialist and one of the directors of the documentary register for free to attend the Proteja Talks in person Featuring historical footage of the drought and smoke in key locations around the city Manaus Extrema presents testimonials from a diverse group of people reflecting the population affected by the impacts of climate change in the region is one of the interviewees featured in the documentary She describes how the Rio Negro drought caused significant losses to her fruit and vegetable business in Cacau Pirera president of the Association of Floating Structures of Tarumã-Açu estimated losses of up to R$10 million for floating structures during several months of drought a professor in the Medical School at UFAM (Federal University of Amazonas) discussing the connection between Amazonian communities Solutions to the situation are highlighted by the coordinators of the Manaus Indigenous Medicine Center as well as by researchers from INPA (National Institute for Amazonian Research) and IPAM This project is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Find out more at un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals The researcher was a pioneer in revitalizing Patxohã considered extinct in the 19th century and recovered by researchers and leaders since 1998 highlights the importance of environmental licensing and explains the opportunities for its improvement in the Legal Amazon Ecosystem services provided by areas of native vegetation are essential for agricultural productivity IPAM – Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia © ® Feito com amor pela Chama7 Made with love by Chama7 Brazil — Dark clouds rumble over the tiny Amazon river community of Nossa Senhora do Livramento After two years of a devastating drought you’d think residents in this parched and isolated town of about 350 families would be elated Dependent on its vast riverways for everything from transportation to food In the more than 100 years since river levels have been monitored, never has the mighty Amazon and the major tributaries of the world’s largest river system recorded such little rainfall. In October, the Rio Negro hit the lowest levels since records were first kept in 1902 anxiety is growing as to whether the rains will come and will they bring enough water to refill the dry riverways Renato Senna, a Climatologist at INPE, Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research says two years of unprecedented drought will be tough to overcome in just one rainy season Climate change and increased deforestation are leading contributors to the drought "The rate at which the Amazon is drying up is scary and much faster than anyone predicted, “ says Senna. In some parts of the Amazon, the annual dry season is now lasting one month longer than it did in the 1970s, according to researchers Senna says it’s too soon to predict whether the upcoming expected La Niña wet weather phenomena will be stronger than normal and enough to refill the rivers Thirty-two-year-old Joelson Posta de Santo who lives in Nossa Senhora do Livramento is hopeful “God willing everything will return to normal The town is about a 30-minute boat ride up the Rio Negro from the Amazon’s sprawling city of Manaus De Santo stands on the now brittle banks of what was a large creek where boats used to be able to power right up to Nossa Senhora do Livramento’s main plaza The creek bed is bone dry with tall bright green grass covering the once submerged floor A few stranded boats are tied to far off trees With the river and creek dry De Santo hasn’t had much construction or electrical work Instead he hauls goods to town from the community’s pier then through a well-worn parched trail winding through tall trees that were once nearly submerged by the river As community leader Paulo Roberto Ferreira da Silva walks the trail he points to white marks more than 13 feet overhead on the trees where the water line used to reach large beaches and huge sandbars have emerged on the Amazon river and its tributaries more than 60 municipalities have declared state of emergencies under the drought Boat operator João Aroldo Viera lives outside the capital Manaus He maneuvers his small rig around a huge sandbar that has emerged at the popular point where the black waters of the Rio Negro meet the pale green Amazon River “The land just keeps growing and there is not enough river for us to move,” he says His community has been hit really hard by the drought Officials are dredging parts of the Amazon to keep the waterways open and have increased the number of ferries crossing the rivers to access the limited highways between major cities Isair Lazaretti is waiting on a barge to cross the Rio Negro into Manaus where he’ll get on one of the only roads available to transport his load of steel wiring He recently lost an axle on the dirty bumpy roads of the Amazon The drought has had a punishing impact on food prices too monger Dantas Abreu sells one of the Amazon’s largest fishes He says his costs have jumped some 25 percent He estimates he’s lost about half of his clientele “I'm 50 years old and I've never seen two droughts like these before,” he said He has two kids and worries about their future with more severe weather but our children will feel it much more,” he said nonprofit news organization that produces award-winning journalism Parece que a página que você está procurando não está disponível