Four years after the Mariana mining disaster in Brazil, river fish remained contaminated

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Dec 19, 2025, 6:43 pm121 ptsTrending
Four years after the Fundão dam collapse—the world's largest mining disaster, which occurred in 2015 in the city of Mariana in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil—a study found that fish in the Doce River were still highly contaminated by metals and other toxic substances.

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