Written by Sergio Kerez, Adriano Machado and Manuella Anderoni
Arari, Brazil (Reuters) -In the Amazon rain forests, the power of great rivers gather with the severity of the moon to form waves that work for dozens of miles. Sergio Los Sergio Los, Sergio Los, fears that climate change and environmental degradation means that their days may be numbered.
Early in the morning in late April, with a supermower in the sky, dozens of miles across the mud over the Mearim River, at the eastern end of the Amazon, to browse the largest “Borroca” in the country and highlight the risks.
The muddy waves of a meter, which formed with the river narrowed between the lush mangrove over the margins, have always done.
“A wave is broken and dissolved,” he said. “This one continues to gain distress. It is the Amazon tsunami.”
However, the waves were about half of the size of what he saw here years ago – and even smaller than the five waves that he says used to ride in the Araguari River in the west before the corrosion caused by agriculture and nearby dams that dried up the strongest poroka in Brazil.
“Given the old pictures, I said Wow, look at the size of these waves,” he said. He added, “Sometimes I cry,” explaining how he missed the huge waves.
Los, who broke twice as records to browse the longest waves of the world, fears that the sea level and drought fed by climate change, as well as corrosion from agriculture and dams, will be a balance that unleashes the power of nature spent years in learning to ride.
“Nature is very alive, it feels every movement, every human intervention,” he said, adding that it hopes to bring the global climate top that will be held in the city of Bilim Amazon in November.
Buroka’s name means a large roar in the original TUPI language – the resounding clash between the ocean and the river that is generated by the tide.
As the moon approaches the Earth, some rivers are pushed back with the ocean water that is raised by withdrawing gravity. The wave grows larger when the deep river becomes shallow.
Research has shown that climate change made parts of the Amazon rain patterns more hot and turbulent rainy patterns that keep the water in its steel constant.
Denelson Bisira, a photographer at the University of Maranao, said that the societies near the Mirm River noticed that the sea reached more from the inside, where they created sand banks and form new Managrav areas that prevent the surrounding tide.
“We felt influenced by the occurrence of poroka,” he said. “But we still lack studies to prove the relationship and the result.”
Los browsed the Poroka worldwide, in Indonesia, China and Alaska, and intends to continue searching for new tidal attacks throughout the Amazon, as well as Papua New Guinea and Canada.
“There are many poroka that no one has seen at all,” he said, adding that he is still dreaming of browsing “all poroka in the world.”
(Participated in the reports of Sergio Kerez and Manuella Andone, written by Manuella Andone, edited by Philippe Fletcher)
