Portfolio: Life Along Argentina's Polluted Riachuelo River
Argentina’s Riachuelo River, which originates some sixty kilometers west of Buenos Aires and snakes around the city’s southern edge, has become one of the most polluted waterways in the world, owing to some 1,500 local businesses — mainly tanneries, chemical plants, and factories— whose runoff flows directly into the river, …
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