Parana River Delta fire

The Parana River delta is on fire, across the river from the Argentinian city of Rosario, which is the Case Study in the first edition of the OCR A and B textbooks that I wrote for Hodder.

This would make an opportunity to blend two topics together: Urban Futures and Extreme Climates or Climate hazards.

In normal times, Rosario’s riverfront homes enjoy a spectacular view of the seemingly never-ending green grasslands on the opposite bank of the Paraná, a waterway stretching over a mile across as it passes through the city.

In recent months, however, dwellers in the luxury condos have been congregating on their balconies as the wall of red flames from thousands of fires raging through the Paraná delta grasslands rises high into the sky.

“Everything is burning, it’s completely out of control,” Leonel Mingo, a spokesperson for Greenpeace Argentina, told the Guardian. “Once a fire reaches that scale, it becomes virtually impossible to stop.”