Floods in south Brazil have displaced 600,000—here’s why this region is likely to see ever more extreme rain in future
Since the beginning of May, those massive floods in Rio Grande do Sul have made world headlines. In the state’s capital, Porto Alegre, the Guaíba river is more than five meters above its normal level, breaking a record set in 1941. The death toll is 149 and growing, with 108 still missing. The floods have …