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Brazil probes risks from chemicals after tankers plunged off collapsed bridge

Estreito, Brazil Reuters Brazilian state and federal authorities were assessing on Tuesday the risks of water contamination after trucks carrying sulfuric acid and agricultural pesticides plunged into a river on Sunday in a deadly bridge collapse. The central span of a 533-metre bridge that links the cities of Estreito in Maranhao state and Aguiarnopolis in […]

Water pollution an “invisible threat” to global goals, economists warn

Johannesburg, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation Water pollution threatens nearly all the globally agreed development goals to end environmental destruction, poverty and suffering by 2030, economists warned in a report on Tuesday, citing the largest-ever database on the world’s water quality. The World Bank report warned of the ripple effects of water pollution on the health, […]