“Look at the kids pray. They have nothing,” said Geralda Sarraf, founder of Love Together Brazil. Love Together Brazil is an Old Westbury-based organization created by Sarraf. Its primary focus is to ...

Karine Pitana had just paid off the last installment on her new couch when floods tore through her hometown of Canoas in southern Brazil nearly two weeks ago. It was just a piece of furniture, but for ...

Brazil has approved a national water resources plan which aims to secure water for millions of Brazilians, as well as safeguard some of the world’s richest aquatic life. Brasilia, Brazil – In a ...

The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is facing a severe drought that may affect around 500,000 people by the end of the year, authorities said Tuesday. Many are already struggling to access essential ...

Home to the largest river in the world by volume, the Amazonin Brazil holds about 12% of global freshwater reserves. As a result, many Brazilians have long run with the narrative that their water is ...

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) — The mayor of a major city in southern Brazil on Tuesday pleaded with residents to comply with his water rationing decree, given that some four-fifths of the population is ...

The mayor of Porto Alegre, Brazil, requested water rationing as 80% of the population lacks running water due to recent flooding. Rescue efforts continue in Rio Grande do Sul as the area sees closed ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian climatologist Núbia Beray Armond for years had been sounding the alarm about Rio de Janeiro’s need for an extreme heat plan including water distribution. Interest was tepid ...