Tag: Minas de Gerais

• Tuesday, January 28th 2020 - 08:28 UTC

  Brazil floods: 54 dead, 18 missing and over 30.000 people displaced

  

  Over 30,000 people have been displaced by heavy rains in southeast Brazil that also killed 54 people and left 18 missing. The storms in recent days caused floods and landslides, submerging entire neighbourhoods and sending homes tumbling down hillsides in the states of Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo and Rio de Janeiro.

• Friday, November 27th 2015 - 11:07 UTC

  Australia's BHP denies UN report on 'toxic' mine spill from collapsed dam in Brazil

  

  Australian mining giant BHP says mud spilled by the devastating collapse of a dam at a Brazilian mine is not toxic. On Thursday the UN said the dam burst at the Samarco mine unleashed a flood equivalent to “20,000 Olympic swimming pools of toxic mud”.

• Wednesday, July 6th 2011 - 15:35 UTC

  Brazil 2010/11 soy crop larger than estimated but strong Real eats into profits

  

  Brazil's 2010-11 soy crop was larger than previously estimated, as higher productivity and a greater area of land planted with the oilseed resulted in record output, agricultural consultancy Celeres reported this week.