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Brazil’s Negro River Reaches Record Low

The impact of severe drought on the Negro River, a tributary of the Amazon River, and other rivers in the basin is dramatically evident in this pair of images, which show that every body of water has shrunk in 2010 compared to 2008.


NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published December 11, 2010
Data acquired December 10, 2010

Source:
Terra > MODIS