Just a few months after facing floods that destroyed crops and submerged entire communities, thousands of families in the Brazilian Amazon are now dealing with a severe drought that, at least in some areas, is the worst in decades.
The low level of the Amazon River, at the center of the world's largest drainage system, has alerted dozens of municipalities.
The rapid decrease in the river's water level is due to lower-than-expected rainfall during August and September, according to Luna Gripp, a geoscience researcher who monitors river levels in the western Amazon for the Brazilian Geological . . .
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