Brazil’s Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) voted 4-1 on 10 November 2026 to keep the new Brumadinho emergency aid frozen. Vale must still deposit about R$133.1 million a month into the payment ...

Chinese state-owned companies have increased their presence across Brazil's electricity, oil, ports, agriculture, mining and ...

In November 2015, the Fundão dam near the city of Mariana in Brazil collapsed, unleashing a torrent of mud and mining waste ...

The scandal-hit firm running Britain’s biggest class action court case is being sued by lawyers who claim it failed to pay ...

Introduction: How to approach this seriesThis series covers the collapse of a mining dam that killed 19 people and caused damage throughout an entire river basin. Legal proceedings regarding this ...

Minas Gerais’ biodiversity sent Charles Darwin into ecstasies, but the area has always been dominated by mining. Now ecotourism offers a lifeline ...

Iron ore pellet automation drives Samarco's restart as Yokogawa supplies DCS and safety systems across two sites 400 km apart ...

While recent election wins and COP31 offer some optimism, they mask a bleak reality. What will it take for real change?

A comprehensive review reveals that catastrophic tailings facility failures stem from interacting technical, operational, and ...

After weeks of student-led protests over poor conditions in French schools, the government has promised to replace its controversial university admissions platform by 2028.

Mining giant BHP faces court in Manchester, England next week over a 2015 dam collapse that was Brazil's worst-ever ...

Itaipu's Paraguayan side has asked prosecutors to recover about US$182 million held at Ueno Bank. Both sides say power supply ...