Mangroves near the mouth of the Rio Doce, after the Samarco tailings dam disaster, November 2015. Photo: Nilmar Lage. The case in the High Court in London against mining company BHP, on behalf of 620,000 people affected by the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam in...
On 5 November, the communities in Brazil who were affected by the collapse of the Fundão tailing dam marked the 9th anniversary of this disaster which took away 19 lives and caused massive environmental damage, polluting the waters and wildlife of Rio Doce from the...
A month after the collapse of the Fundao Dam, just the roof of a house is showing above the mud in Paracatu de Baixo. Photo: Nilmar Lage. (From LMN 2017 report: “The River is Dead: The impact of the catastrophic failure of the Fundão tailings dam.”) From...
