BRASILIA, Brazil — A total of 116 cities in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia were in a state of emergency because of flooding on Tuesday due to heavy rains that have been pounding the ...

Mucum, Brazil — Flooding from a cyclone in southern Brazil washed away houses, trapped motorists in vehicles and swamped streets in several cities, killing almost 40 people and leaving 2,300 ...

It was a long journey getting here - 24 hours by train from Santa Cruz in Bolivia to Corumba just beyond the Brazilian border, then a bus ride through swamps and bush to Buraco do Piranha.

Devastating floods in Brazil may be getting worse, with up to 150 millimeters of rain forecast for the weekend. At least 136 people have died,125 others are missing and, according to the ...

Check out our stories here. Brazilian backland casque-headed tree frogs were found on “thin perches about 1.5 m (5 feet) in height in Cerrado swamp forests,” researchers said. When picked up ...