Fatal barge crashes fuel fear over Madeira River waterway expansion in Brazil

Mongabay
Aug 17, 2026, 3:21 pm114 ptsTrending
CALAMA AND PARAÍSO GRANDE, Brazil — A mother and her three kids died after a barge loaded with soybeans collided with a floating structure and completely destroyed their stilt house on Jan. 17, 2025, in the Urumatuba riverine community along the Madeira River, in the Brazilian Amazon. Four months later,…

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