LONDON — 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 major ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A week before what the Indigenous Krenak people now call “the death of the river,” they say they could feel it coming. The birds stopped singing, the air grew heavy, and an unusual ...

LONDON -- 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 ...

A judge has ruled that a company can be held liable for a dam collapse which devastated indigenous communities in Brazil and became the country's worst environmental catastrophe. At the High Court in ...

Court ruling halts allegation the miner funded litigation to block Brazilian municipalities from pursuing claims in London.

In 2015, the Fundão tailings dam, an embankment built to store byproducts of iron mining, collapsed in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The collapse caused what many call the "worst environmental disaster" in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers found that bananas, cassava, and cocoa grown near the 2015 Fundão dam collapse site contain elevated levels of toxic ...