Brazil
Ongoing Brazil floods raise specter of climate migration
Devastating and ongoing flooding in southern Brazil is forcing some of the half million displaced residents to consider uprooting their lives in one of the biggest cases of climate migration in Brazil's recent history.
Southern Brazil’s location at the confluence of tropical and polar currents has fed periods of increasingly intense drought and rains due to climate change, according to scientists.
The record devastation in Rio Grande do Sul follows floods in the se... [2672 chars]