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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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- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
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- http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=87083
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
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About this work
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.