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Aerial view of flooded streets at the Navegantes neighborhood in Porto Alegre, Rio da Grande do State, Brazil on May 4, 2024 The floods caused by the intense rains that hit southern Brazil left at least 56 dead and 67 missing, according to a new report on Saturday from Civil Defense. BRASILIA, Brazil – After torrential rains that sparked historic flooding in southern Brazil, the country expects a swing to severe drought in parts, the environment minister said Wednesday.
“We have the same thing happening in the Pantanal, the Amazon,” she said, referring to climate extremes in one of the world’s largest tropical wetlands, and its largest rainforest. A rapid study done by global scientists after the flooding in Rio Grande do Sul determined that climate change made the event twice as likely, with El Nino playing as big a role in the catastrophe.
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