Iran Press/ America: Extensive areas in South America are gripped by a 30-year drought. Temperatures in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have risen to 40 degrees Celsius over the past three months.
The water level of the Paraná River, the second-longest river in South America after the Amazon, has reached its lowest level in seventy-seven years.
Extensive drought in the region is the worst drought in the Americas in a thousand years, scientists say.
