Rain can bring mosquitoes with disease. But its absence could have been a factor that led to the first urban yellow fever epidemic in Brazil in decades. In 2015, an El Niño phenomenon caused an abnormally strong drought in central South America, and monkeys [...]
The long-lasting drought increases the wildlife in native forests. We talk about the water absorption by plant nutrition, missing drainage in the forest and the need for rest zones with Andreas Kinser, head of the Nature Conservation department at the German Wildlife Foundation, on radioeins.