Study examines historical drought and flooding on the Amazon River
Colleagues of Stahle and Granato-Souza from Laranjal do Jari, a municipality on the Jari River, which is a tributary of the Amazon. Credit: Daniela Granato-Souza Extreme floods and severe droughts on the Amazon River have occurred more frequently in the last 40 years. Eight of the 12 most extreme floods in the 121-year streamflow record