Environmental Challenges in Porto Alegre

In a lowkey twist of fate, the Salgado Filho Airport found itself dark and partially flooded, while Caramelo the horse awaited rescue from a rooftop. Researchers from Cemaden and Unesp have dropped some dank knowledge on the natural and human factors leading to this chaos. Their study, published in the Journal of South American Earth Sciences, revisits the catastrophic floods of 1941 that submerged 15,000 homes, displacing 70,000 people in Porto Alegre. Despite past efforts to bolster flood defenses, the sigma shift in climate has unleashed unprecedented storms, proving that even the best-laid plans can goon in the face of nature's edge.