How many more Brumadinhos and Marianas will we be faced with yet?
Editorial: Almost three years ago, an editorial in the Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society discussed the environmental consequences of the November 5, 2015 catastrophic failure of the Fundão Dam, located in Mariana-MG and owned by Samarco (a joint venture of Vale and BHP Billiton), which resul...
| Autores: | , , |
|---|---|
| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) |
| Repositorio: | Repositório Institucional da UFMG |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.ufmg.br:1843/72980 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://dx.doi.org/10.21577/0103-5053.20190034 http://hdl.handle.net/1843/72980 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8159-3658 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6974-3724 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4699-2423 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Desastres ambientais Brumadinho, MG Mariana, MG Química - Brasil Catástrofes naturais Impacto ambiental |
| Resumo: | Editorial: Almost three years ago, an editorial in the Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society discussed the environmental consequences of the November 5, 2015 catastrophic failure of the Fundão Dam, located in Mariana-MG and owned by Samarco (a joint venture of Vale and BHP Billiton), which resulted in the death of 19 people and rendered more than 300 families homeless. This was one of the worst environmental disasters ever to occur in Brazil. Thousands of tons of iron ore tailings invaded the Doce River basin, reaching all the way to the Atlantic coast near the mouth of the river. This watershed has not yet fully recovered, and the environmental impacts are frequently reported in the scientific literature and by the media. [...] |
|---|