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?

Brumadinho, Brazil -- Firefighters are carefully moving over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies left by a dam collapse that buried mine ...

Rio De Janeiro -- A torrent of muddy mining waste unleashed by a dam breach that killed at least 84 people in south-eastern Brazil is now heading down a small river with high concentrations of ...

A Brazilian judge has ordered mining giant Vale S.A. to pay for all damage caused by a ruptured dam that unleashed a torrent of mine waste and killed at least 247 people in January. The disaster ...

Photography “A Disaster Prompted by Economic Activity” Brazil’s mining dam disaster, the worst in the country’s history, will continue to cause irreparable environmental damage for years.

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.

This led to the worst environmental disaster in Brazil's history as billions of gallons of toxic waste flowed into rivers, killing thousands of fish and leaving 250,000 people without drinking water.

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

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.

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

The body of the five-year-old was found five days after Brazil's worst environmental disaster on November 5, 2015. It was triggered by the collapse of a tailings, or waste product, dam at an iron ...

Victims of Brazil's worst environmental disaster are taking their case for compensation to a UK court on Monday.