A combination of heavy rainstorms and snowmelt caused the water held back by the coffer dam to overtop an emergency spillway, ...

H.778 aims to target the state’s “high-hazard potential” dams, or those that would likely endanger human life if they were to fail. Of the roughly 1,000 dams in the state, there are 74 dams that fall ...

A decade after Brazil’s 2015 Fundão dam collapse, research shows bananas grown near the Doce River estuary may contain ...

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 ...

Researchers from universities in Brazil and Spain tested bananas, cassava and cocoa pulp grown in soil affected by the ...

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 ...