‘You see people’s lives in the debris’
Environmentalist Leonardo da Costa visits Rio Grande do Sul’s largest temporary landfill, where thousands of belongings lost to flooding were sent
‘Seeing our house, our work, go underwater. Here, it was a life saver‘
Liziane Dutra’s family lost everything to flooding in Rio Grande do Sul and went to live in a building occupied by unhoused people. Now, they may be evicted
‘When the water rose, we didn’t think it would be that serious. Seeing the Market closed is truly sad’
Caroline Kader’s family has worked in Porto Alegre’s Mercado Público for four generations and is, for the second time, experiencing loss from a major flood
‘That night, everything I am was left behind’
Cartoonist Talita Grass’s home was subsumed by the flooding in Rio Grande do Sul and now she is trying to recover her things from the mud’s destruction
‘We, guardians of Nature, knew it would happen. Capitalists are destroying Nature’
Cacique Cláudio Acosta’s village in Charqueadas, Rio Grande do Sul, was surrounded by floodwaters for ten days. After five days without clean water to drink, they had to improvise a well
‘For some people, it was a waste of time to save the animals. Except animals are human too’
Animal protector Isis Brancher has saved horses, cows, sheep, and many other animals from drowning in Porto Alegre’s floodwaters. In this illustrated report, she talks about why she decided to focus her efforts on the planet’s “wisest beings”
‘This is the second house we’ve left now. The first flooded before’
Cartoonist Pablito Aguiar interviews Jeferson (Maninho) and Vanja Moura de Melo, residents of Alvorada, in Rio Grande do Sul, while they ride a boat through flooded streets in search of safe harbor
