Climate change brings extreme, early impact to South America
By DIANE JEANTET, MAURICIO SAVARESE and DEBORA REY, Associated Press
Published: March 6, 2022, 10:05am
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FILE - A man carries a dog rescued from a residential area destroyed by landslides in Petropolis, Brazil, Feb. 16, 2022. Scientists have long been warning that extreme weather would cause calamity in the future. But in Latin America -- which in just the last month has had deadly landslides in Brazil, wildfires in the Argentine wetlands and flooding in the Amazon so severe that it ruined harvests -- that future is here already. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)Photo Gallery
RIO DE JANEIRO — Scientists have long been warning that extreme weather would cause calamity in the future. But in South America — which in just the last month has had deadly landslides in Brazil, wildfire in Argentine wetlands and flooding in the Amazon so severe it ruined harvests — that future is already here.
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