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By Diego Vara PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of students in southern Brazil have been gone a month without seeing their classrooms ...

Heavy rains once again pounded parts of Brazil's southernmost state on Thursday, ruining days-long clean-up efforts and flooding areas which had previously been untouched in Rio Grande do Sul's capital city of Porto Alegre. But the skies opened once more on Thursday morning, dumping heavy rains and flooding areas of Porto Alegre all over again. In a span of 12 hours, parts of Porto Alegre received more rains than they typically do in a whole month, according to data from the national meteorologi

More than 88,000 people displaced as floods hit Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state.

Nearly 1,000 seals and sea lions have died from bird flu outbreaks in southern Brazil. Authorities are working to isolate the deadly virus from commercial poultry flocks. The outbreak has resulted in an unprecedented 942 sea mammal deaths in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The virus attacks the nervous system of sea mammals, causing convulsions. The contagion among sea mammals is believed to have started in Peru and spread to Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and now Brazil.

Nearly 1,000 seals and sea lions in southern Brazil have died from bird flu outbreaks, say authorities, who are scrambling to isolate the deadly virus from commercial poultry flocks. The southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul has confirmed an unprecedented 942 sea mammal deaths following infection by the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), which was reported for the first time ever in the South American country this year. Oceanographer Silvina Botta, at the Rio Grande Federal University (FURG), said the carcasses have to be buried or incinerated as soon as possible to reduce the risk ...