A crude oil spill reached over 2,000 kilometers off the coast of the Northeast and Southeast regions of Brazil, causing immeasurable damage to the environment. The first records of the stroke occurred at the end of August 2019.
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The rupture of the Vale dam (Brazilian multinational mining company) in Brumadinho, in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, in Minas Gerais, caused a great avalanche of iron ore tailings, in the early afternoon of January 25, 2019.
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A red sludge, resulting from the chemical washing of bauxite for the production of alumina at the Hydro Alunorte refinery, flooded riverside and quilombola communities, contaminating rivers, streams and artesian wells between February 16 and 17...
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A mining tailings dam called “Fundão”, controlled by Samarco Mineração S.A in Mariana, broke on the afternoon of November 5, 2015 in the sub-district of Bento Rodrigues, 35 km from the center of the Brazilian municipality of Mariana...
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A ship carrying five thousand live oxen sank at the quay of the port of Vila do Conde, in the municipality of Barcarena / Pará. The vessel sank still moored in the port on October 6, 2015. Despite the efforts of the port workers, most of the...
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