After three torrential storms dumped 10 inches of rain on Northern California in nine days in February 1986, Sacramento’s ...

In the rural community of Jangada, in the municipality of ​​Brumadinho in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, the water that supplies local families comes from springs that emerge onsite. In a Youtube video ...

BOGOTA – 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 silence ...

This is the second in a series of stories highlighting the 50th anniversary of the Teton Dam Disaster. Read our first installment here. IDAHO FALLS – Richard Robison was 13 when he saw the collapse of ...

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 ...

BHP (NYSE:BHP) said Tuesday it agreed to pay A$110M (~US$72.5M) to settle an Australian shareholder class action lawsuit related to the 2015 Fundao tailings dam collapse, with no admission of ...

While the seven Colorado River Basin states try to reach agreement over how to divvy up diminishing flows in the Colorado River, another crisis lies in the design of Glen Canyon Dam, which is ...

This is the Mullaperiyar Dam. It has been around since well before your grandparents were born. And it could fail at any moment now. What could cause the dam to collapse? How quickly would this lead ...