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The Brazilian Congress is analyzing a bill that would leave all the country's non-forestry vegetation unprotected, affecting an area twice the size of the United Kingdom.
“Go after the corporation that caused all this.”
In the 1990s, the situation was sometimes so bad that the foam ran down the streets of some cities near the river's shore.
In Brazil, Sao Paulo's potable water supply is at risk as recurring smelly, toxic foam, once again, befouls the Tiete River. Read more here.
Not far from Latin America's biggest city, Sao Paulo, a river is covered in a white layer that resembles fresh snow but is in fact a smelly, toxic foam. A tributary of the Parana river, the waterway has been covered in a visible foam layer since last week, at one point spread over more than 10 kilometers and also spotted blighting several waterfalls.