': the river that appeared overnight in ArgentinaAfter a night of heavy rainfall, Ana Risatti woke to an ominous roar outside her home. In 2016, combined exports of soya beans, soya meal and soya bean oil made up 31% of the country’s total exports. “Argentina is a banana republic where soya bean is the new banana,” says Jobbágy. “Without soya bean our farms couldn’t survive – and the country couldn’t survive either. This has caused the aquifer beneath the Morro basin to rise, and increased the speed of the subterranean flow – in turn triggering the collapse of the area’s permeable soil.

Source: The Guardian April 01, 2018 06:00 UTC