アマゾン川大渇水

　見たところ数十～百メートル規模で水際が後退していて、はしけもボートも陸上に取り残されている状態。これ本格的にダメですね。

BBC Amazon drought: Stranded boats and dead fish 12 Oct 2023

　これは気候変動とエルニーニョのせいだと。にしても、これだけの渇水は真に記録的だろう。

「A severe drought in the Brazilian Amazon is disrupting transport, isolating communities and killing wildlife.

The Brazilian government attributes the drought to climate change and the El Niño weather phenomenon, which has caused the volume of rainfall in the northern Amazon to fall below the historical average and river levels to drop to near record levels.

The low water levels pose a threat to the estimated 30 million people that call the Amazon basin home.」

　水運が死滅したため、3000万人ほどに影響が出ていると。これはもう、空輸でどうにかできるレベルを超えてますね。…水運って重要なんだなあ…。

「Entire villages that depend on the rivers for a sustainable livelihood and transportation are now struggling to go about daily life and have to receive food, medicine and water by air.」

「Experts suspect that the heat wave and drought may be the cause of the high numbers of fish and river dolphins, known as boto, which have been washing up dead.」

　魚たちさえ逃げ切れなかった―。その辺の池や沼、湖ではさらに同様の状況が展開したことだろう。