Dams are built to control nature, but when they break, the damage can erase entire towns overnight. This video revisits nine of the worst dam disasters on record, what caused each collapse, and the ...

BHP has been denied permission to appeal a ruling that held them liable for the 2015 Fundao dam collapse in Brazil. The lawsuit could be worth up to £36 billion. BHP plans to approach the Court of ...

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 ...

BHP was on Monday refused permission to appeal against a ruling that it is liable for the 2015 collapse of a dam in ...

The front page of the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 1928 Los Angeles Times It was three minutes before the stroke of midnight on a windy March 12, 1928, when the St. Francis Dam broke. Many of the ...

Brazilian authorities arrested eight employees of mining giant Vale on Friday over a dam collapse at one of its mines three weeks ago that killed at least 166 people and left 147 missing, presumed ...

Jamie Woodward has received funding from research councils in the UK and Australia. Jeff Warburton has received funding from UK research councils. Stephen Tooth has received research funding from ...

During our recent ShakeOut drill, a number of people asked me about dam safety during earthquakes. I am not an earthquake engineer and by no means an expert in dam safety. But I have been poking into ...

Lynda Yorke receives funding from NERC, British Council and Learned Society of Wales. Giuseppe Forino has received funding from NERC, British Council and Learned Society of Wales. University of ...

This photo shows the Bento Rodrigues District, in the municipality of Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, after the Fundão tailings dam ruptured in 2015, causing a flood of mud that cascaded onto several ...