Contaminated Rio Doce Water Flows into the Atlantic - NASA, by NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey., 2015-12-08
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Contaminated Rio Doce Water Flows into the Atlantic - NASA

NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.

2015-12-08

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Almost two weeks after the Bento Rodrigues dam disaster, the iron waste reached the Atlantic Ocean waters, configuring the worst environmental disaster in Brazil's history.