Environmental Crime: Rio Grande do Sul houses diverse flora and fauna species, many in danger of extinction. Animals are trafficked for sale on the local pet market – notably birds, reptiles and fish.

Weather forecasters in southern Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina foresee stormy conditions early this week due to an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Rio Grande do Sul alone there are more than 150 mining projects that may leverage Brazil's new environmental code to their advantage. Jair Bolsonaro’s victory in the 2018 Brazilian presidential ...

Rio Grande do Sul suffered severe and recurring droughts for half of the last decade, the most severe in 2012, with 1.8 million people affected. The events caused great harm to the state’s ...

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 ...

The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul's main campus in Porto Alegre is a spacious complex with green trees and amenities. The Biblioteca Central Irmão José Otão, one of Brazil’s ...