Armed with brushes and paint, volunteers touch up houses left standing after devastating floods last year that killed nearly 200 people and displaced half a million in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre. Still repairing damage nearly 12 months after Rio Grande do Sul's worst-ever natural calamity, residents worry not enough is being done to buttress the city for another such catastrophe, which experts say is made ever more likely by climate change. In late April and early May 2024, three months' worth of rain fell on the wealthy state, of which Porto Alegre is the capital, in just ten days. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES