Un evento climatico estremo e catastrofico, l’ennesimo, appena documentato nel cuore dell’Amazzonia. Durante la siccità e l’ondata di calore senza precedenti del 2023, le acque di numerosi laghi ...

More than 200 river dolphins died in Brazil's Lake Tefé in the fall of 2023, with water temperatures soaring as high as 105.8 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a new study. Gustavo Basso / NurPhoto via ...

Hundreds of dolphins have been found dead at a lake in Brazil after the waters reached 105.8°F. New research, which was published on Thursday (November 6) in the journal Science, has examined the ...

When dolphins began washing up dead by the dozens on Lake Tefe in Brazil's Amazonas state, hydrologist Ayan Fleischmann was sent to find out why. What he and his colleagues discovered was startling: a ...

The drought in the central Amazon was already showing signs of unusual severity in early September 2023, but the situation turned catastrophic by the end of the month, when the carcasses of two ...

Lakes in the Amazon became hotter than the maximum temperature recommended for hot tubs as unprecedented heat and drought in 2023 turned them into “shallow, simmering basins,” according to a new study ...

This year, the drought in Amazon rivers is already worse than in 2023, when 209 pink and grey river dolphins were found dead in Lake Tefé, in Amazonas state, largely due to overheating of the waters.

Severe drought and soaring temperatures are causing lakes and rivers in the Amazon to reach dangerously high temperatures, threatening species like the Amazon river dolphin, according to a recent ...

Freshwater dolphins face an uncertain future as their waterways heat up. But a Colombian biologist has made it his life's work to advocate for the Amazon's “pink ambassadors.” Fernando Trujillo holds ...