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Flood-hit Brazil businesses count losses, look to future
AFP via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe thriving economy of southern Brazil has been brought to its knees by historic floods, with vast...
UN official highlights how better preparation has shrunk disaster deaths despite worsening climate
San Francisco Chronicle· 2 hours agoAs climate change makes disasters such as cyclones, floods and droughts more intense, more frequent...
Brazil Floods Displace 600,000 in World’s Latest Mass Climate Migration
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 1 day ago(Bloomberg) -- On April 29, Jéssica Lima and her family went to bed. They woke up with a river...
Longtime NTO counselor retiring
Odessa American, Texas via Yahoo News· 4 days agoMay 28—After 51 years in education, Clelia Carrillo is retiring from Ector County ISD. For the past 11 years, she has been the counselor at George H.W. Bush New Tech Odessa. Her retirement party ...
‘Seek care immediately’: Four dead in outbreak of waterborne disease following Brazil floods
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 days agoMore than 50 cases of the waterborne leptospirosis disease have been confirmed in the wake of...
Waterborne disease outbreak after Brazil floods kills four
BBC via Yahoo News· 7 days ago[Getty Images] Authorities in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul have confirmed 54 cases of...
Brazilian Floods Expose Survivors to Waterborne Disease
Environment News Service· 4 days agoThis message of alert and guidance to the people of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul is from the State Secretary of Health, Arita Bergmann, recorded on ...
Cases of bacterial disease rise in Brazil's flooded south
AFP via Yahoo News· 4 days agoBrazilian authorities on Tuesday reported an increase in cases of leptospirosis, a bacterial disease...
Flood-battered farmers in southern Brazil wade through lost harvests
Reuters via AOL· 3 days agoAfter three days of ferocious rains, Edite de Almeida and her husband fled their flooded home in...
A woman crosses a floating pedestrian walkway over the Forqueta River in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul...
The Port Lavaca Wave· 3 days agoA woman crosses a floating pedestrian walkway over the Forqueta River in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul...