Brazil's Minister of Finance Fernando Haddad said the federal government is preparing direct financial assistance for families affected by the floods. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da ...

RISK OF MORE FLOODS Brazil's national centre for natural disasters ... MetSul said in a statement the region could face more "very large" floods "of serious proportions". In neighbouring Uruguay ...

Heavy rains and floods in São Paulo state, Brazil, killed at least 36 people on Sunday. The city of São Sebastião was one of the hardest hit with dozens of people missing after at least 50 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (CNN)-- Rain-induced flooding over large parts of Brazil have killed at least 31 people and left another 500,000 homeless, the government's civil defense agency said Thursday.

Landslides caused by heavy rains have killed at least 79 people in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. The athletes decided to stay in their home state of Rio Grande do Sul to help flood victims.

Image courtesy of Anderson Astor and Marcelo Curia/ICCE. There had already been two large floods in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state, in 2023. Just six months later, in May 2024 ...

a public health and environmental expert who Fiocruz appointed to track the flood’s impact. “We have never seen in Brazil a disaster of this size and with such a large exposed population.” ...

Flooding from heavy rain that started late last week has damaged large segments of Alagoas ... helping hands on the other side. Gallery: Brazilian floods Nearly 74,000 people are homeless or ...