Brazil’s mining-reliant Mariana region was covered in a sludge of heavy metals when a tailings dam collapsed in 2015. Are new safety measures enough?

Brazil dam disaster death toll in nears 60, with hundreds still missing. January 28, 2019 / 4:42 AM EST / AP Brazil dam collapse death toll rises to 34 .

A year ago, a Brazilian dam operated by Vale gave way to a tsunami of 9.7 million cubic meters of mining sludge, killing 270 people. The surrounding community will never be rebuilt.

A decade after a dam collapsed in Brazil, sending a deluge of toxic mud into villages and waterways, residents complain of an ...

The ruling comes nearly three weeks after Australia's BHP and Brazil's Vale reached a deal with Brazil's government to pay nearly $30 billion in damages over the collapse of the tailings dam at mine ...

Mining giants BHP and Vale on Friday signed a deal with Brazil's government to pay nearly $30 billion in damages for a 2015 dam collapse that triggered. The dam collapse ... for Brazil dam disaster.

Mining giants BHP Group and Vale SA offered to pay Brazil about $25.7 billion in total compensation for a 2015 tailings dam disaster at their joint-venture iron ore complex.

Mariana dam disaster victims, from right, Pamela Fernandes, Gelvana Rodrigues, Monica dos Santos and former interim mayor of Mariana, Juliano Duarte, holding a banner outside the High Court, in ...

Emanuele Vitoria was at home with her father and brother when a torrent of toxic mud tore threw the quiet village of Bento Rodrigues in the mountains of southeast Brazil nine years ago. The body ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal government on Friday reached a multibillion-dollar settlement with the mining companies responsible for a 2015 dam collapse that the government said was the ...

BHP's Staggering Legal Bills Ben Thomson, LawFuel contibuting editor BHP is facing one of the largest environmental lawsuits ...

Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, on Nov. 5, 2015, took their case for compensation to a UK court on Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, almost nine years after tons of toxic mining waste ...