research coordinator at Brazil's National Center for Natural Disaster Monitoring (Cemaden) told AFP. According to weather agency MetSul, the flooding has "changed the map of the metropolitan ...

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 ...

ITABUNA, Brazil--Two dams gave way in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia after weeks of heavy rains, swamping already swollen local rivers as flooding hit towns across the region ...