In November 2015, the Fundão dam near the city of Mariana in Brazil collapsed, unleashing a torrent of mud and mining waste ...

Five days after a dam collapse at a Brazilian mine, residents were mourning Wednesday the nearly 360 people killed and missing — as well the river they live alongside, which is dying from spreading ...

The toll from a dam collapse last week at a mine in southeast Brazil has risen to 121 dead and 226 missing, according to officials Saturday. The emergency service for the state of Minas Gerais, where ...

Researchers found that mining waste from the 2015 Mariana dam disaster persists in soil and water, entering local crops — indicating ongoing contamination. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist ...

Introduction: How to approach this seriesThis series covers the collapse of a mining dam that killed 19 people and caused damage throughout an entire river basin. Legal proceedings regarding this ...

Lax regulations, chronic short staffing and a law that muffled the voices of environmentalists on mining licenses made the devastating collapse of a dam in southeastern Brazil all but destined to ...

BHP (BHP), and the Samarco joint venture for the 2015 tailings dam collapse in Mariana has been joined by 19 new cities, ...

Brumadinho, Brazil — Firefighters are carefully moving over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies left by a dam collapse that buried mine buildings ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- In the aftermath of Brazil's deadliest mine disaster, a nasty and familiar feud has broken out. Green groups and community activists blamed avaricious industrialists, ...

The scandal-hit firm running Britain’s biggest class action court case is being sued by lawyers who claim it failed to pay ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The deadly collapse of a Vale SA's mining waste dam in Brazil was partially triggered by "a persistently high water level" that caused the structure to lose strength and ...

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian state prosecutor expects to bring criminal charges "in the next few days" against miner Vale over a mining waste dam collapse that killed at least 259 ...