By Debora Ely and Diego Vara PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, June 19 (Reuters) - Communities rebuilding from devastating floods in southern Brazil two years ago are bracing for an intense El Nino that ...

Porto Alegre, the Brazilian metropolis left submerged after torrential rains, had been lulled into a "false sense" of security by a vast but aging system of flood defenses, an urban drainage engineer ...

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) — The mayor of a major city in southern Brazil on Tuesday pleaded with residents to comply with his water rationing decree, given that some four-fifths of the population is ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Flooding in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state ravaged nearly everything needed for economic activity, from local shops to factories, farms and ranches. The environmental ...

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, May 23 (Reuters) - Heavy rains once again pounded parts of Brazil's southernmost state on Thursday, ruining days-long clean-up efforts and flooding areas which had previously ...

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, May 15 (Reuters) - Brazil's southernmost state capital may suffer severe flooding for weeks to come, experts warn, compounding the struggles of half a million people forced to ...

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — Less than two weeks after floods devastated Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state leaving at least 143 dead, the state is again on alert this Sunday with the risk of water ...

Neither Porto Alegre, Brazil, nor Valencia, Spain, are in the news this week. But they have been before, and almost certainly ...

Timescales for resumption of flight operations at Brazil’s Porto Alegre airport remains uncertain after heavy rain led to flooding which closed the airport. The airport authorities have issued a NOTAM ...

Porto Alegre Airport seen prior to the flood. Credit: Trevisan Aviation Images / Alamy Stock Photo Salgado Filho International Airport in Porto Alegre (POA) in southern Brazil remains closed ...