China called the Banqiao Dam strong enough for a 10,000-year flood. Then Super Typhoon Nina hit in 1975, the dam burst, and 62 more dams collapsed across Henan in a single night. Entire towns were ...
Inland remnants of tropical cyclones are notorious rainfall flood producers, as the recent tragedy in Texas in early July 2025 illustrated. But on Aug. 7, 1975, 50 years ago today, one of the world's ...
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How 9 dam failures killed hundreds of thousands, from corporate greed to China's hidden catastrophe
From a Brazilian mining company's toxic mudslide to China's Banqiao Dam disaster that killed 230,000 people and was hidden for 30 years, these catastrophic failures reveal how negligence, flawed ...
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