People evacuate on a surfboard from a neighborhood flooded by heavy rains, in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Saturday, May 4, 2024.Carlos Macedo / AP On Saturday evening, residents in the town of Canoas stood up to their shoulders in muddy water and formed a human chain to pu...
Rains returned to Rio Grande do Sul on Friday as the death toll from historic floods in Brazil's southernmost state reached 126, according to local authorities, climbing from 113 earlier in the day. Storms and floods battering the state, home to some 10.9 million people, have also displaced ...
The torrential downpour — which bombarded Rio Grande do Sul in just four days withmore than 70 percentof all the rain it would normally get in the month of April — destroyed roads, left thousands without water and power and destroyed key infrastructure. Brazilian climatologistFrancisc...
Some Brazil residents are refusing to leave belongings behind while others are returning to evacuated homes despite the risk of new storms.
These data could allow the selection of areas for priority actions, in order to help the implementation of regional public policies that promote the reduction of human losses in Brazil.Midori Saito, Silviade Assis Dias, Mariane Carvalhodos Santos Alvalá, Regina Célia...
SAO PAULO, July 3 (Xinhua) -- At least 180 people have died from weeks of record flooding in southern Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state and 32 people remain missing, the civil defense agency said Wednesday. Torrential rains began on April 29 and continued for days, inundating cities across...
Severe flooding has hit Brazil's perennially drought-stricken northeast, killing 15 people and leaving 70,000 others homeless, authorities said Monday. The states most affected by the flooding are Maranhao, Piaui, Ceara, Alagoas and Bahia.
Death Toll From Brazil Floods, Landslides Reaches 57 More Reuters Helicopters of the Brazilian Navy are seen on board the ship Navio Atlantico during relief operations for victims of landslides in Sao Sebastiao, Brazil February 23, 2023. REUTERS/Roosevelt Cassio SAO PAULO (Reuters) -The death toll...
SAO PAULO, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- South Brazil's Santa Catarina state remains on alert for heavy storms, which have triggered flooding, landslides, and evacuations in 22 cities, according to the country's civil defense authority. Joinville, the largest city in the state, has been suffering flo...
It took about a day for crews to reach a horse seen stranded on a rooftop surrounded by floodwater in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state.