‘The smell hurts’: why has the supreme court washed its hands of Argentina’s ‘rotten river’? – The Guardian

“A 2013 report found that 25% of children living in the Matanza-Riachuelo basin had lead in their bloodstream, and an even higher portion were living with respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses,” wrote Harriet Barber for The Guardian. The Matanza-Riachuelo River in Buenos Aires is considered one of the most polluted in the world. In 2008, Argentina’s […]