Tailings dam breach - 'the assassination of Brazil's fifth largest river basin'

The Ecologist
Nov 18, 2015, 7:29 am37 pts
Brazil has suffered its biggest ever industrial disaster, write Ana Luisa Naghettini & Geraldo Lopes. Breached and overflowing dams have released a massive slug of toxic muds and tailings from iron mining into the country's fifth largest river system that provides drinking water for downstream cities,…

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