article_snippet: Worsening droughts in the Amazon - dubbed the 'lungs of the world' - are speeding up climate change, scientists have warned.
article_snippet: Worsening droughts in the Amazon - dubbed the 'lungs of the world' - are speeding up climate change, scientists have warned.
article_snippet: do Cristo Reis during one of the worst droughts ever recorded on October 21, 2005 in the Amazon region in Brazil .
article_snippet: The 2005 drought in the Amazon was described as a 'once a century' event - but five years later an even worse one followed raising concerns about the region's capacity to continue soaking up carbon dioxide.
article_snippet: the 2010 drought saw the Amazon River at the Amazon River lowest levels for half a century with several tributaries completely dry and more than 20 municipalities declaring a state of emergency.
article_snippet: Both droughts were associated with unusually warm seas in the Atlantic Ocean off the Brazilian coast - the suspected result of manmade emissions - and suggesting drought years in the Amazon could become more common.
article_snippet: The Amazon drought of 2010 occurred right in the middle of The three year study but only affected some parts of Amazonia.