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

This is the third in a series of stories highlighting the 50th anniversary of the Teton Dam Disaster. Click here to read the first installment.

In August 1975, Super Typhoon Nina unleashed extraordinary rainfall across Henan Province, pushing the Banqiao Dam beyond its limits. When the structure failed, it triggered a catastrophic chain ...

REXBURG — Don Ellis overlooked the Teton River as he watched a wall of water break through the newly-completed Teton Dam. It was 11:55 a.m. on June 5, 1976, and the local radio personality was ...

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 ...

HOUSTON — The satellite signal was subtle but persistent. A decade of observations suggested that part of the Livingston Dam — a 2.5-mile-long earth and concrete structure about 70 miles north of ...

A car and two dogs are on the roof of destroyed houses at the small town of Bento Rodrigues after a dam burst in Minas Gerais state, Brazil, November 6, 2015 [File: Felipe Dana/AP] A judge in the ...

BHP has been found legally liable for the collapse of a Brazilian dam which killed 19 people and contaminated vast swathes of rainforest. The High Court in London yesterday ruled that the ...

KHERSON, Ukraine — A major dam in southern Ukraine collapsed Tuesday, flooding villages, endangering crops and threatening drinking water supplies as both sides in the war scrambled to evacuate ...

(Alliance News) - BHP Group Ltd on Friday said the Federal Court of Australia has approved a settlement linked to the Brazilian dam collapse. Early in September, the Melbourne, Australia-based ...

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 ...