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Amazon River falls to lowest level in over a century amid severe drought

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Brazil’s Amazonas state is in the grip of a severe drought that has sent the water level of the Amazon River plummeting to its lowest point in more than a century, cutting off remote villages and devastating the region’s fragile ecosystem.

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