More than 180,000 people are homeless in the cities of São Leopoldo and Novo Hamburgo alone. Cid Guedes / Shutterstock

Floods in south Brazil have displaced 600,000 – here’s why this region is likely to see ever more extreme rain in future

‘Flying rivers’ of moist air from the Amazon combined with a warming planet have the potential to produce more rain, say scientists.

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