The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is calling for a permanent monitoring system to track Brazil's compliance with its recommendations following the devastating floods that struck southern ...

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Residents in Manaus, the biggest city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, were struggling to cope with severe flooding after heavy rain caused nearby rivers to swell. Over 30,000 people have been ...

Image by Bruno Kelly. Brazil’s Civil Defense recorded almost 5,700 occurrences of natural disasters in Amazonian states from ...

Armed with brushes and paint, volunteers touch up houses left standing after devastating floods last year that killed nearly 200 people and displaced half a million in the Brazilian city of Porto ...

The sleek submarines, each painted cobalt blue to match the ocean, cut through choppy waters at remarkable rates.

Porto Alegre (Brazil) (AFP) – Armed with brushes and paint, volunteers touch up houses left standing after devastating floods last year that killed nearly 200 people and displaced half a million ...