Pristine atlantic coast, Brazil. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care
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After the collapse, in November, of a dam holding back mining waste at a iron-ore venture, 50 million metric tons of sludge is spreading now off the coast between Rio de Janeiro and Bahia states, turning the pristine blue waters brown along an expected 30 miles of beaches, according to Brazil’s environmental agency…
New Year’s is one of the most-important holidays for many Brazilians, a time when rich and poor alike flee the big cities and crowd the shoreline…
Mud From Brazil Dam Burst Is Toxic, UN Experts Say, United Nations (11-25-2015)
The scale of the environmental damage is the equivalent of 20,000 Olympic swimming pools of toxic mud waste contaminating the soil, rivers and water system of an area covering over 850 kilometers…
Brazil Dam Toxic Mud Reaches Atlantic Ocean Via Rio Doce Estuary, BBC News (11-22-2015)
A wave of toxic mud travelling down the Rio Doce river in Brazil from a collapsed dam has reached the Atlantic Ocean, amid concerns it will cause severe pollution…
