“Tristeza de Guanabara,” Bahía de Guanabara, Rio de Janeiro. Captions and Photo source: ©© Omar Uran
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With the Sugar Loaf Mountain perched at its entrance, Rio’s de Janeiro’s stunning Guanabara Bay enchanted navigators in centuries past, but today its natural beauty conceals a modern hazard.
The area is heavily polluted and sailors here have to add evading obstacles, everything from TVs, floating bed frames and dead animals, to their skills…
Rio summit exposes Guanabara Bay’s Dire Pollution, AFP (Uploaded 06-13-2012)
