The Vajont Dam disaster was one of the deadliest engineering failures in modern history. Engineers were warned repeatedly that the mountain above the reservoir was unstable, yet construction continued ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive investigate structural failures, flood dynamics, and human behavior during a dam collapse.

Don Ellis overlooked the Teton River as he watched a wall of water break through the newly-completed Teton Dam. It was 11:55 a.m. on June 5, 1976, and the local radio personality was broadcasting live ...

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 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A week before what the Indigenous Krenak people now call “the death of the river,” they say they could feel it coming. The birds stopped singing, the air grew heavy, and an ...

Monday, BHP was denied permission to appeal a London court verdict that found the mining company accountable for the 2015 dam ...

LONDON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - BHP was on Monday refused permission to appeal against a ruling that it is liable for the 2015 ...