Karine Pitana had just paid off the last installment on her new couch when floods tore through her hometown of Canoas in southern Brazil nearly two weeks ago. It was just a piece of furniture ...

Mucum, Brazil — Flooding from a cyclone in southern Brazil washed away houses, trapped motorists in vehicles and swamped streets in several cities, killing almost 40 people and leaving 2,300 ...

Flood-hit Brazil braces for more chaos under a weekend of heavy rain By Lianne Kolirin , Michael Rios , Vasco Cotovio and Abel Alvarado, CNN 3 minute read ...

(SOUNDBITE OF HELICOPTER SWIRLING) CARNEIRO: By air, land and water, the rescue efforts continue, but these are floods of historic proportions. The torrential rains in southern Brazil reflect the ...

The flooding in Rio Grande do Sul is shaping up to be one of the worst environmental disasters in Brazil’s history. On Thursday, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced a 50 ...

The floods had killed at least 83 people in the ... worst climate disaster ever to befall the wealthy, southern region of Brazil. According to the Porto Alegre mayor's office, the level of the ...

Torrential rains have caused one of Brazil’s worst floods in modern history, leaving more than 100 dead and nearly an entire state submerged. An aerial view on Wednesday of one of the worst ...

Even in a country increasingly inured to natural disasters driven by climate change, the flooding that has swallowed Rio Grande do Sul, one of Brazil’s most developed and prosperous states ...

The analysis of the floods in Brazil has not undergone academic peer review, though it relies on widely accepted methods. To conduct their analysis, the researchers looked at historical records of ...

ELDORADO DO SUL, Brazil, May 7 (Reuters) - Rescuers rushed to evacuate people stranded by devastating floods across the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul on Tuesday, with at least 90 ...

PORTO ALEGRE, May 12 (Reuters) - The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state rose to 143, up from 136 on the day before, the local civil defense government body said on ...

A brown horse rescued from atop a small tin roof in Brazil became a national symbol of hope this week as the country continued to combat unrelenting rain and deadly floods. The 770-pound horse ...