People in southern Brazil have described the unprecedented devastation wreaked by flooding and overflowing rivers which have left swathes of the area under water. The floods are the worst natural ...

That was the day that the floods which have devastated parts of southern Brazil cut off the building she lived in. "By Wednesday, the water had reached [a height of] 1.7m (5ft 6in)," she recalls.

Watch as our South America correspondent Ione Wells joins the emergency services in Porte Alegre in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, which has seen the worst flooding in its history. This video has ...

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The heavy rains in May killed more than 180 people in Brazil and caused major damage to infrastructure. The floods revealed the fossil much earlier by “accelerating erosion,” a silver lining ...

3 million of the 10 million population of Brazil's most southern state that has borders with Argentina and Uruguay. “There are those who die during the flood and there is the aftermath of the ...

Military crews in Brazil have captured the moment they had to rescue stranded locals from the roofs of their homes in Rio Grande do Sul, following major flooding. Days of heavy rain and a failed ...

The heavy rains were the fourth such environmental disaster in the state in a year, following floods in July, September, and November 2023 that killed 75 people.

Aerial view of flooded streets during rescue operations in the Sao Jao neighborhood of Porto Alegre, Brazil, taken on May ... were ejected from their homes by floods and mudslides in Rio Grande ...

In Brazil, at least 36 people have been killed as torrential rain triggered flooding and landslides Sao Paulo state. Several towns have been inundated by water, while landslides have destroyed many ...