An explosion at a dam in central Washington state Thursday afternoon injured six employees, NBC News reported. The workers were transported to area hospitals — some by ambulance, others by airlift — ...

From the outside, the dam looked solid and immovable. Inside, it was slowly tearing itself apart at the molecular level. A ...

Firemen escort flood victims in Baldwin Hills in the aftermath of the Baldwin Hills Dam disaster. They wade through the street using a safety rope. Photo dated: Dec. 15, 1963. Photography by Joe ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 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 unusual ...

Nothing has happened to the dam as reported on social media, according to NIHSA. NIHSA Director General, Mr Clement Nze, in a statement, noted that the dam is safe, saying no explosion whatsoever ...

When Brazil’s Mariana dam collapsed on 5 November 2015, Alinne Ribeiro’s husband was swept away in a cascade of mud and water. It was an environmental catastrophe which caused untold devastation in ...

(Reuters) -Global miners BHP Group and Vale have offered around $1.4 billion to settle a class action lawsuit in the United Kingdom tied to one of Brazil's worst-ever environmental disasters, the ...

A UK judge ruled that BHP is strictly and fault-based liable under Brazilian law for the 2015 Fundão dam collapse that killed 19 people and devastated communities. The court allowed over 700,000 ...

Some dangers hide in plain sight — what looks like a peaceful lake or a simple hole in the ground can, in reality, be a dam. These man-made barriers hold back massive amounts of water, and when they ...