Upper Peninsula dam’s condition and regulatory trajectory “mirror” the failures that preceded the 2020 disaster, agency warns ...

The U.S. oversees more than 92,000 dams vital for flood control, power generation, and water supply. Approximately 70 percent ...

Water that had been rising steadily for days turned suddenly violent when a key flood barrier along the Green River failed, ...

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The death toll from the collapse of a dam holding back mine waste in southeastern Brazil rose to 40 on Saturday as searchers flying in helicopters and rescuers laboring in deep mud uncovered more ...

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 ...

Under a scorching sun, Tereza Ferreira Nascimento on Wednesday dug through the mud with garden tools and her hands in search of her brother Paulo Giovane dos Santos, resigned to the reality that he ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 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 ...

Helena Taliberti spoke to SBS Portuguese from the airport of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, where she was about to return to São Paulo after spending 15 days in Brumadinho desperately looking for her ...

Ways to save money on laundry, a potential dam failure on the mainland, and hundreds of condos sitting empty in Victoria topped the charts of CHEK’s most-read stories of October 2025.