While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans ...

Pakistan has a coastline, opening to the Arabian Sea. It even has an embryonic surfing scene, and that’s a worthy story for another time. But historically, the country hasn’t been typically known as a ...

LONDON (AP) — A London judge ruled Friday that global mining company BHP Group is liable in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster when a dam collapse a decade ago unleashed tons of toxic waste into a ...

Brazilian police said Friday they have enough evidence to charge employees of mining giant Vale and its German auditor over false information used to certify the safety of a tailings dam that ...

An official in southern Attapeu province said the death toll had climbed and scores were still missing weeks after the dam burst. Information about the number of dead and missing has trickled out of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Illegal levels of arsenic and mercury polluted the Rio Doce river in the days after a dam burst at an iron ore mine in early November in Brazil's worst-ever ...