SAO SEBASTIAO - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Monday homes should no longer be built in areas at risk of landslides and major floods, pledging to address housing issues as ...

The floods in coastal Sao Paulo state were the latest in a series of such disasters to have recently struck Brazil, where shoddy construction, often on hillsides, has tended to have tragic ...

MARIANTE, Brazil—For 250 years ... swept off the map with scores of other towns by catastrophic floods that have killed at least 175 people. More than 650,000 others were evacuated, the country ...

Anselmo Cunha / AFP Experts have attributed the severity of the recent flooding in southern Brazil to human-driven ... shelters and other more permanent housing — data collection is expected ...

StoneX cut its forecast for soybean production in Rio Grande do Sul by 3 MMT to 20 MMT due to recent flooding in the far southern Brazilian state. It now forecasts Brazil’s total soybean crop at ...

The thriving economy of southern Brazil has been brought to its knees by historic floods, with vast agricultural ... "We must give them a solution for housing, stability," he said.