On August 9, 1979, Machchhu Dam burst after week-long monsoon rains in Gujarat and devastated the industrial city of Morbi and surrounding areas downstream. Thousands of people died while scores of ...

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (Reuters) - The collapse of a Brazilian dam controlled by miner Vale a week ago likely happened because parts of the sand and dried-mud structure dissolved into liquid, a state ...

SOLAI, Kenya (Reuters) - A dam on a Kenyan commercial farm that burst this week, killing at least 45 people, was built illegally, the water resource regulator said on Friday, as police opened an ...

Barton City — This week's flooding across northern Michigan is being blamed for the collapse of a privately owned dam in Alcona County, washing away the small lake that the structure held back. Buck's ...

New York - Brazil's Vale said November's deadly mining disaster could cost it at least $443 million, but it was too early to put a price tag on what it expects to be a long clean-up from the pollution ...

In her 88 years, Antonia Alves has seen much hardship as a member of Brazil's indigenous community, whose people have often been driven from their ancestral lands over conflicts with farmers and ...

Early on December 14, 2005, water quietly rose over the parapet wall of the Taum Sauk upper reservoir in Missouri. With no spillway and malfunctioning level sensors, pumps kept running until the ...