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In 2000 a massive oil leak from an underwater Petrobras pipeline spilled into Guanabara Bay near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is considered one of Brazil’s worst environmental disasters ever and was given an estimated recovery time of 10 years.
What Al Jazeera English reporter Gabriel Elizondo discovered on a recent trip to Guanabara Bay is [...]
When US President Barack Obama opened up large areas of America’s Atlantic coastline to new oil drilling two weeks ago, some astute observers suggested that it might not be much more than a political maneuver. There is a distinct lack of knowledge concerning how much oil is out there; estimates put the amount of the [...]
Rio’s death toll keeps climbing higher as more bodies are recovered from mudslides that devastated the city last week. Currently, the toll stands at 246%
A deadly combination of rain, flooding and mudslides has washed away the homes, lives, and hopes of many Rio de Janeiro citizens this week.
Death tolls climbed to 205 as search and rescue teams pulled more bodies from a mudslide that destroyed a hillside shantytown. At least 100 people were buried in that mudslide, which also [...]
Heavy rains in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro resulted in flooding and mudslides, killing perhaps hundreds of people. So far at least 107 have died in mudslides in the slums or favelas of Niterói, a city that lies across the bay from the well-known metropolis of Rio de Janeiro city.
This raw video from [...]
The death toll from the flooding and landslides that swept through Rio de Janeiro has risen to 153 and at least 200 more are feared to be dead.
The 200 other victims are included in a landslide that buried at least 60 houses in the Morro Bumba slum in Niteroi—a town next to Rio. The [...]
The worst rain in Rio de Janeiro’s history took 95 lives yesterday.
In less than 24 hours, the city saw 11 inches (29 cm) of rainfall and more is expected to come. Thousands of drivers were stranded overnight on roads blocked by the rising water. Landslides cut through roads and destroyed shantytowns. Homes of wood and [...]
According to a BBC News report around 50 people have died in mudslides brought on by heavy rains in and around the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. Mudslides frequently threaten densely populated ‘favelas’ or shantytowns, which are often built on hillsides in the Rio region. But it is not only the poor residents of [...]
