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Study: Don’t blame climate change for South American drought

FILE - Pablo Giailevra walks on his stunted cotton field during an ongoing drought in Tostado, Santa Fe province, Argentina, Jan. 18, 2023. Climate change isn’t causing the multi-year drought that is devastating parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, but warming is worsening some of the dry spell’s impacts, a new study says. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello, File)

FILE - Land recently burned and deforested by cattle farmers stands empty near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, Aug. 16, 2020. Climate change isn’t causing the multi-year drought that is devastating parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, but warming is worsening some of the dry spell’s impacts, a new study says. Cutting down trees in the southern Amazon in 2020 reached the highest rate in a decade and that translates to less moisture being available farther south in Argentina. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

FILE - People who live in the fishing village of Espinillo Island walk their goods across the Old Parana River delta now that boats can't reach their community and others, amid a drought that turned the river into a sand bank, across the river from Rosario, Argentina, July 29, 2021. Climate change isn’t causing the multi-year drought that is devastating parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, but warming is worsening some of the dry spell’s impacts, a new study says. (AP Photo/Victor Caivano, File)

FILE - Birds fly over a man taking photos of the exposed riverbed of the Old Parana River, a tributary of the Parana River, during a drought in Rosario, Argentina, on July 29, 2021. Climate change isn’t causing the multi-year drought that is devastating parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, but warming is worsening some of the dry spell’s impacts, a new study says. (AP Photo/Victor Caivano, File)

Study: Don’t blame climate change for South American drought