Southern cattail can scavenge up to 34 times more manganese from contaminated soil than other plants found in similar environments.
(Image by Amanda Duim Ferreira, courtesy of FAPESP)of areas affected by iron ore mine tailings.Journal of Cleaner ProductionTypha domingensisThe fieldwork was conducted in Regência on the Doce River estuary, Espírito Santo state, an area inundated by part of the 50 million cubic meters of iron mining waste released when the
The disaster affected 41 towns in Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo, and 19 people died. The toxic waste reached the estuary some two weeks later and is estimated to have contaminated 240.8 hectares of Atlantic Rainforest and killed 14 metric tons of fish. Many projects and programs have been launched since then to try to mitigate the damage, but the estuary