2008: “All the research points to it [in north-east Brazil] becoming drier. In the last 30 years temperatures have risen by 1C. There is more very heavy rainfall over short periods and more evaporation,” says Eneida Cavalcanti, a desertification specialist at the Joaquim Nabuco foundation in Recife (UK Guardian, 2008).
Reference: UK Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/10/poznan-brazil-climate-change-environment
Image Description: Lençóis maranhenses na época da seca. Photo by Larissa Dourado, 2008Jan. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Len%C3%A7%C3%B3is_na_seca_1.JPG Image Permission: This image has been released into the public domain by its author, Larissa Dourado. This applies worldwide.
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