Brazil vows more aid as Amazon waters dry up

Brazil's Vice-President Geraldo Alckmin said more help would be sent to an Amazon state where rivers are drying up in a severe drought, causing mass die-offs of fish and dolphins.
The Vice-President and government ministers visited Amazonas State. Amazonas, Brazil's biggest state, covered in immense expanses of tropical forest, is currently in its dry season, which has been worsened by the El Nino warming phenomenon that reduces cloud formation, meaning even less rain than usual.
The Environment Minister said that "the warming of the North Atlantic due to uncontrolled climate change" was exacerbating the dry spell. Authorities are prioritizing the supply of food, water, fuel and medicine to affected populations in Amazonas. The government was sending emergency aid to the area, where the drought is affecting some 500,000 people.