Thursday, August 22, 2024.
In keeping with the Encyclopedia Britannica, “Pantanal, floodplain in south-central Brazil extending into northeastern Paraguay and southeastern Bolivia. It lies chiefly in the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso. The Pantanal is one of the largest freshwater wetlands in the world, and the extent of its seasonally dynamic area is estimated at between 54,000 square miles (140,000 square km) and 81,000 square miles (210,000 square km). The wetlands extend for about 375 miles (600 km) from north to south along the banks of the upper Paraguay River and several of its tributaries, including the São Lourenço and Taquari rivers.” Click here to read more at the source.
El Niño and extreme droughts have threatened the area yr after yr, particularly in the course of the winter, mid-year within the Southern Hemisphere.
And the forest fires that include it, much like these in Canada, the USA, Greece, Spain, Chile and Australia, as could be learn within the article “2023: A year of intense global wildfire activity” by Copernicus, “Europe’s eyes on Earth”.
The Pantanal – sadly – can also be within the worldwide headlines:
Amongst a number of different undesirable penalties, the air in a big a part of Brazil turns into smoky, with impacts on life, together with as a consequence of elevated dangers in sure companies.
Personal highway concessionaires, for instance.
Which means satellites and meteorology have gotten a part of extra companies, including new real-time options to enterprise threat administration.
Lastly, click on on the picture beneath for the Brazilian authorities’s common bulletins on the Pantanal fires.
