New Internationalist

VIEW FROM BRAZIL

Climate change has started to alter Brazil’s water system. This has an impact on human consumption, agriculture, river transport and also hydroelectric power dams, which are the foundation of the country’s energy portfolio.

Even though Brazil has around 12 per cent of all fresh water available on the planet, it is starting to run out.

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from New Internationalist

New Internationalist3 min read
View From Brazil
Lakes become mud puddles, river courses look like dirt roads. Images of drought in northern Brazil’s Amazon, alongside floods in the southern states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, provide a glimpse of the country’s future with the worsening
New Internationalist2 min readInternational Relations
Vultures
for the New Internationalist Co-operative newint.org Just days after Hamas’s 7 October attacks, as Israel’s devastation of Gaza was getting into full swing, I received an odd email. It pitched a potential article from the CEO of the Israeli governmen
New Internationalist2 min read
Praiseworthy
by Alexis Wright (And Other Stories, ISBN 9781913505929) andotherstories.org Aboriginal Sovereignty, 17 years old, walks into the sea to end it all. His father, Cause Man Steel, is too busy planning his fortune as the proprietor of a sustainable donk

Related Books & Audiobooks