In recent years, two mining tailings dams broke in the state of Minas Gerais, causing Brazil’s worst ever socio-environmental disasters. Hundreds were killed, millions were affected. Communities were displaced and two main rivers became mud, flooding the...
For more on the Mariana Dam Disaster and its links to Aberfan, see our recent article in New Internationalist To commemorate the 8th anniversary of the Mariana disaster (read our 2017 report The River is Dead for more information) we have hosted Leticia Oliveira and...