If nothing is done, she said, "Rio Grande do Sul will experience these tragedies every two or three years. There won't be time to rebuild before it is flooded again." ...

View of the flooded city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. [Photo ... Military personnel and politicians without experience or technical abilities were in charge of Civil Defense ...

More than 60 cities have been battered since Monday night by the storm, which has been Rio Grande do Sul state's deadliest, Gov. Eduardo Leite said. "The fly-over we just did, shows the dimension ...

Over two-thirds of Rio Grande do Sul's 497 municipalities have been affected, leaving more than 150,000 people displaced, local authorities said. More than 130 people are still missing.

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 ...

A combination of wet El Niño weather and human-induced climate change were key drivers of the worst flooding event in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state earlier this year. The flooding affected ...

The information and communication center of the State of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil is to build a new disaster recovery data center. Procergs (Centro de Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação do ...

An aerial view on Wednesday of one of the worst natural calamities to hit the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Credit...Nelson Almeida/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ...

The government of Rio Grande do Sul reported Sunday (May 5) that the total number of dams with an imminent risk of collapse due to heavy rains has risen to six in the state. On Saturday ...

The Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul has signed a three-year memorandum of understanding with Neoenergia, a subsidiary of the Spanish giant electricity energy corporation Iberdrola ...