Highlights While the Amazon rainforest is one of the planet's main basins of fresh water, the Amazon River and its hundreds of tributaries are its arteries and veins, now dried up and depriving...
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Extreme and long-term drought in the La Plata Basin: event evolution and impact assessment until September 2022
A joint report EC-JRC, CEMADEN, CIMA, SISSA, and WMO Introduction In the past two years, the Paraná River, the second-longest in South America and traversing Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, has been...
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Natural Hazards Monitoring - 27 December 2022
Official Severe weather United States of America On 26 December 2022, the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), provided information regarding the winter storm caused by the artic...
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Natural Hazards Monitoring - 13 December 2022
Official Wildfire Chile On 12 December 2022, the Ministry of the Interior and Public Safety of Chile (ONEMI per its acronym in Spanish) provided information regarding the wildfire in Melipilla,...
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Natural Hazards Monitoring - 31 May 2022
Severe Weather Brazil On 29 May, the Brazil Ministry of Regional Development reported heavy rains, floods, and landslides in the Northeast region of Brazil that has particularly impacted the city of...
Brazil: Emergency response to fires in the Brazilian Amazon (Rapid Response Fund No.13/2019)
An unprecedented number of fires have raged throughout Brazil in 2019, intensifying in August. There have been more than 80,000 fires so far this year, the most ever recorded by the country’s...
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Emergency assistance for Amazon rainforest fires in the Federative Republic of Brazil
On September 13, the Government of Japan has decided to provide emergency assistance (tents, sleeping pads, etc.) through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), in response to a request...
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ACT Alliance Alerts: Environmental Disaster in the Amazon
An unprecedented number of fires have raged throughout Brazil in 2019, intensifying in August. There have been more than 80,000 fires so far this year, the most ever recorded by the country’s...
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Chile aporta 5 aviones AirTractor al combate de incendios forestales en la Amazonía
Un total de cinco aviones AirTractor (AT 802) destinará Chile al combate de los incendios forestales en la Amazonía, gracias al aporte coordinado a través del G7. Así lo confirmó el Ministro de...
Seven Brazil states have federal backup to curb Amazon fires
By Pedro Rafael Vilela Bolsonaro argued the issue must be tackled with “serenity” President Jair Bolsonaro authorized the use of the Armed Forces in the efforts to fight the wildfire in the states of...
Brazil allots $9 million to curb Amazon fires
Measures will reach border areas, indigenous territories, and more The Brazilian government has earmarked $9.14 million for the Ministry of Defense in a bid to help curb the wildfire in the Legal...
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South America - Amazon fires (DG ECHO, Brazilian Red Cross, Brazil Space Agency, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 26 August 2019)
Fires have been affecting the Amazon rainforest basin since mid-August. Media report an increase in their number compared to previous years, particularly in Amazonas and Rodonia States. Parts of...
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South America: Forest Fires: Information Bulletin no. 1
The situation In recent years, forest fires have become an emerging and continuous danger in South America. These fires cause damage to the ecosystem, biodiversity, livelihoods with a strong impact...
Lives of indigenous people living in the burning Amazon must be top priority at G7 summit, says MRG
As the world responds with outrage and calls for action to address the record number of fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the lives of one million indigenous people living in the rainforest must...
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Natural Disasters Monitoring - July 12, 2019
Official Sources: Severe Weather Brazil On 11 July 2019, the Civil Defense of Bahia Sate in Brazil reported heavy rain in the village of Quati, causing partial breakage and overflow of a dam due the...
En Brasil aumentan los incendios forestales, un fenómeno atribuido a El Niño
Brasil, 05 de Enero 2016 Fuente: La Razon Brasil registró unos 235.000 incendios forestales en 2015, un número en un 27,5 % superior al de 2014 (184.000 focos), según datos divulgados hoy por el...
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REDLAC Weekly Note on Emergencies - Latin America & the Caribbean - Year 8 – Volume 428
Highlights FOREST FIRES: As of last week, 13,440 forest fires were registered in October in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Authorities declared a 90-day state of emergency for 12 cities. RAINS AND...
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REDLAC Nota Semanal sobre Emergencias - América Latina y el Caribe - Año 8 - Volumen 428
Destacados INCENDIOS FORESTALES: Hasta la semana pasada 13,440 focos de incendio fueron registrados en el mes de octubre en el estado del Amazonas, Brasil. Autoridades declararon estado de emergencia...
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Chile envía 20 mil litros de retardante químico a Brasil para combatir incendio forestal en el Amazonas
17/10/2015 | 15:07 | Arica y Parinacota, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Atacama, Coquimbo, Valparaíso, Metropolitana, Lib. Gral Bernardo O’Higgins, Maule, Biobío, Araucanía, Los Ríos, Los Lagos, Aysén del...
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REDLAC Nota Semanal sobre Emergencias América Latina & El Caribe - Año 6 - Volumen 289
DESTACADOS: BRASIL: Unas 200,000 personas están afectadas por inundaciones en Río de Janeiro BOLIVIA: 320 familias están damnificadas debido a condiciones climáticas asociadas al fenómeno de La Niña...