A tale of two cities: What drove 2024’s Valencia and Porto Alegre floods?

Mongabay
Mar 12, 2025, 6:32 pm128 ptsTrending
Neither Porto Alegre, Brazil, nor Valencia, Spain, are in the news this week. But they have been before, and almost certainly will be again, as bouts of extreme drought, followed by deluge, become more frequent and fierce. The media cameras are gone from 2024’s inundations, but in Valencia 100,000 wrecked…

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