by Matteo Cavallito<\/p>\n
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The exceptional drought experienced in the Amazon<\/strong> Basin during 2023 would have been caused primarily by the effects of climate change<\/strong>. The phenomenon, in other words, would be linked more to the general rise in temperatures than to the action of El Ni\u00f1o<\/a>, or the periodic warming of the surface waters of the Central-Southern and Eastern Pacific Ocean during the winter months that occurs on average every five years. This is supported by a study<\/a> involving researchers from Imperial College London and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, among others.<\/p>\n “Scientists from Brazil, the Netherlands, the UK and the US used published peer-reviewed methods to assess whether and to what extent the drought has been influenced by climate change as well as the occurrence of El Ni\u00f1o, which is known to be associated with drought in the Amazon,” says a statement<\/a> released by the World Weather Attribution<\/strong> (WWA), a group of scientists formed to study the incidence of extreme events.<\/p>\n