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 ...

BHP's appeal against a ruling assigning it liability for the 2015 Fundao dam collapse in Brazil was denied by London's High ...

BHP has been denied permission to appeal a ruling that held them liable for the 2015 Fundao dam collapse in Brazil. The lawsuit could be worth up to £36 billion. BHP plans to approach the Court of ...

LONDON -- 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 ...

A judge has ruled that a company can be held liable for a dam collapse which devastated indigenous communities in Brazil and became the country's worst environmental catastrophe. At the High Court in ...

In November, London's High Court ruled BHP was legally responsible for the collapse of the Fundao dam in Mariana, ...

In 2015, a mine tailings dam failed near the town of Bento Rodrigues, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The collapse spilled about 40 million cubic meters of iron ore mining waste into the ...