RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - The compensation agreement with miners BHP, Vale and Samarco for the Mariana dam collapse in 2015 has been joined by 19 new cities, including the one that was the ...

Nearly 300 people were missing, many feared dead, on Saturday after a dam collapsed at a mine in southeastern Brazil, according to officials and the mine owner, corporate giant Vale. Emergency ...

A week after a dam storing mining waste collapsed in southeast Brazil, the human cost is clear, with 110 killed and 238 missing, presumed dead, but the environmental impact is still being evaluated.

The death toll from the collapse of a dam holding back mining waste in southeastern Brazil has risen to 121, rescue officials said Saturday. Another 226 people are missing. Lt. Pedro Aihara of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers found that bananas, cassava, and cocoa grown near the 2015 Fundão dam collapse site contain elevated levels of toxic ...

BHP (BHP) won its effort to throw out a contempt of court case in the U.K. over the funding of litigation to try to prevent some Brazilian municipalities suing the company in London ‌over the 2015 ...

Rio de Janeiro — Brazilian authorities have issued arrest warrants for five people in connection with a dam collapse that killed at least 65 people as it plastered part of a city with reddish-brown ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A criminal investigation into the fatal collapse of a dam owned by mining firm Vale SA should be concluded in the coming days, a Brazilian prosecutor said on Tuesday, with ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian iron ore miner Vale SA told prosecutors in the state of Minas Gerais that a dam is at risk of rupturing at its Gongo Soco mine, about 40 miles from where its ...

Researchers found that mining waste from the 2015 Mariana dam disaster persists in soil and water, entering local crops — indicating ongoing contamination. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist ...