Cemvita, the U.S.-based industrial biotechnology company, signed today an engagement agreement with Invest RS, formalizing ...

At least 12 people have died, five are missing and nearly 3,000 have been left homeless after an “extratropical cyclone” hit Brazil’s Rio Grande Do Sul, local authorities say.

A survey by the Quaest institute, published in May of last year, showed that 99 percent of Brazilians believe the floods in Rio Grande do Sul are somehow related to climate change, and more than ...

Santa Maria, RIO GRANDE DO SUL— On the evening of April 29, Jean Paolo Gomes Minella, a hydrologist at the Federal University of Santa Maria in southern Brazil headed to his river monitoring ...

Torrential rains have drenched the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, home to 11 million people, since late April and have triggered severe flooding that has submerged entire towns, blocked ...

Heavy rains which caused widespread flooding in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul have left hundreds of towns under water. At least 85 people died in the floods and about 150,000 ...

Rio Grande do Sul's civil defence said 111 people were still missing, a number that has also been increasing in the last few days. On Sunday evening, it had reported at least 78 deaths and 105 ...

Rio Grande do Sul was slammed by another cyclone in June that killed at least 11 people. Daphné Anglès contributed translation. John Yoon reports from the Seoul newsroom of The Times.

The information and communication center of the State of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil is to build a new disaster recovery data center. Procergs (Centro de Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação do ...

The Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul or UFRGS) originated as the Escola de Farmácia e Química in 1895, which united with several other higher ...