Brazil's government presented on Thursday a counteroffer requesting that miners Vale and BHP and their joint venture Samarco ...

China's leader Xi Jinping has told the visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif that Beijing is willing to work with ...

Five years after the catastrophic failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in Brazil, a team of researchers from science and ...

“Brumadinho was the biggest environmental and human disaster in the history of Brazil, but it brought a historic milestone in dam safety,” says Carlos Eduardo Ferreira Pinto, a public ...

In late 2015, the collapse of the dam, near the town of Mariana, Minas Gerais, at the Samarco iron ore mine, caused a vast flow of mud and toxic mining waste that buried a nearby village ...

Junior Pereira looks grimly at a puddle that used to be part of Brazil’s Xingu river, a mighty Amazon tributary that has been desiccated by the massive Belo Monte hydroelectric dam. Pereira ...

and the Itaipu Dam between Brazil and Paraguay. It is widely known that the name Altamira comes from Spanish. In the late ...

The attempt to reallocate the Klamath’s water will provide perhaps the most critical test of how much sacrifice can be ...

"Although this predator is widely distributed in hydroelectric dam reservoirs throughout Brazil, its potential effects on native species had never been studied before. Our analysis highlights ...

Beijing is willing to work with Islamabad to build an upgraded version of an economic corridor linking the two countries, ...

Brazil States Ask Court to Double What Vale, BHP Should Pay for Dam Burst By Marta Nogueira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Two Brazilian states have asked a court to more than double the amount that ...

and their Samarco joint venture must pay in damages for a 2015 deadly tailings dam failure, Reuters reported late Tuesday, citing a legal document filed this week. A Brazil federal judge ruled in ...