ELDORADO DO SUL, Brazil (AP) -- More rain started coming down on Saturday in Brazil's already flooded Rio Grande do Sul state, where many of those remaining are poor people with limited ability to ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has vanished.

CUIABA, Brazil (AP) — Pedestrians tiptoe across a road scarred with deep puddles, piles of gravel and a detour sign. Black oily slush leaves no room for missteps or steering mistakes. The debris in ...