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    'The river is dying': the vast ecological cost of Brazil's mining disasters

    Water resources are tapped with often reckless abandon and poor regulation. And it looks set to go on under new president
    by Jonathan Watts Global environment editor Jan 29, 2019 4 minutes
    Firefighters look for victims of a dam collapse in Brumadinho, Brazil. Photograph: Léo Corrêa/AP

    The Brazilian government has been urged to step up punishments for environmental crimes after the deadliest mining disaster in decades.

    The torrent of mud and iron ore tailings that engulfed the community of Brumadinho on Friday continues to inflict a toll on residents, river systems and freshwater species.

    Rescue teams had by Monday recovered 60 bodies near the site, which is operated by Vale, one of the world’s biggest mining companies, but hundreds of people are still missing. Many were eating lunch or resting in a hotel when the tailings dam collapsed and swept them away in a tide of orange sludge.

    It is the second such calamity to strike a Vale facility in the state of Minas Gerais in less than

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