Satellites Observe Amazon Basin Water Storage And Runoff. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 05 / 090529135720.htm. American Geophysical Union.

It takes 15 gallons of water to grow a pound of lettuce, ... water use in the Basin must be reduced,” said Assistant Secretary for Water and Science Tanya Trujillo. ...

Portions of the Amazon basin are experiencing a transition in energy and water cycles. Evidence suggests that the Amazon may also be transitioning from a net carbon sink to a net source. This ...

Secondly, hotter temperatures increase the evaporation from plants and soils, so they lose more water. In 2023, the Amazon basin suffered its most severe drought in at least 45 years – which ...

Some areas of the Amazon basin, the rain forests of sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia are, on average, 2°C cooler than they would be if the plants’ influence weren’t included, says Lee.

Multi-level governance in the Amazon basin, including transboundary cooperation is essential to ensure adequate integrated water management to safeguard water and sanitation as a human right, as well ...

At the hydrological level, the basin constitutes a system of large-scale connectivity, as Mr. Sebastian Heilpern, a member of the Science Panel for the Amazon, described during his intervention during ...

America’s Winter Lettuce Hub Set to Bear Brunt of Water Cuts. ... The measure is the latest action aimed at dealing with the first-ever water shortage in the river basin.

Water levels in the rivers that run through the vast Amazon rainforest have been falling, after a record drought followed by less rain, presenting unprecedented challenges for the Ribeirinhos ...

Water levels in many of the rivers in the Amazon basin have reached their lowest on record amid a continuing drought, the Brazilian Geological Service (SGB) says. The Madeira river, a major ...