Brazil, the toxic mudslide reaches the ocean

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Seagulls flying near the mouth of the Rio Doce © Ricardo Moraes/Reuters

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Local fishermen, hired by Samarco, pick up dead fish found on a beach near the Povoacao village © Ricardo Moraes/Reuters

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The deadly mudslide has reached Atlantic Ocean © Ricardo Moraes/Reuters

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Men looking at the deadly tide from the beach of the Regencia village, on the coast of Espirito Santo © Ricardo Moraes/Reuters

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The members of the Brazilian Sea Turtle National Conservation Programme collected the eggs laid by marine turtles to take them to safer areas © Ricardo Moraes/Reuters

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Birds flying over the orange, contaminated waters of the Rio Doce © Ricardo Moraes/Reuters

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brazil environmental disaster rio doce mouth

Aerial image of a ship on a beach of the mouth of the Rio Doce © Ricardo Moraes/Reuters

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Barrier to reduce water contamination © Ricardo Moraes/Reuters

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24 november 2015,

by Editorial staff