Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Natural disasters have a way of reminding us just how unpredictable and powerful nature can be. Some events in history sound like ...

Dams are built to control nature, but when they break, the damage can erase entire towns overnight. This video revisits nine of the worst dam disasters on record, what caused each collapse, and the ...

Victims of a 2015 dam collapse in Brazil, for which Australian mining giant BHP has been found liable, attended a London ...

LONDON (AP) — 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 ...

The front page of the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 1928 Los Angeles Times It was three minutes before the stroke of midnight on a windy March 12, 1928, when the St. Francis Dam broke. Many of the ...

Australian mining giant BHP will face trial before a British court from April next year to determine how much it must pay in ...

Jamie Woodward has received funding from research councils in the UK and Australia. Jeff Warburton has received funding from UK research councils. Stephen Tooth has received research funding from ...

Brazilian authorities arrested eight employees of mining giant Vale on Friday over a dam collapse at one of its mines three weeks ago that killed at least 166 people and left 147 missing, presumed ...

During our recent ShakeOut drill, a number of people asked me about dam safety during earthquakes. I am not an earthquake engineer and by no means an expert in dam safety. But I have been poking into ...