Dhaka, March 22 -- Brazil is home to 12% of Earth's freshwater reserves, much of it in the Amazon, but is losing natural surface water as climate change and land conversion from forest to farming take their toll, a report said Friday.The country lost 400,000 hectares of aquatic surface from 2023 to last year, according to the latest figures from the MapBiomas monitoring platform - an area roughly the size of the US state of Rhode Island.In the past 16 years, only 2022 showed an increase, and since 1985, the country has lost about 2.4 million hectares of river and lake surface due to drought, urban development, and over-pumping of aquifers."The dynamics of land occupation and use, along with extreme climate events caused by global warming, a...