Fifty years after the collapse of the Teton Dam, a new book shows how this iconic moment in eastern Idaho is connected to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The devastating flooding in Texas Hill Country has shocked and scared the nation, with Americans from coast to coast waiting for ...

One hundred years ago, a catastrophic flood carrying enormous boulders swept through part of Dolgarrog village, north Wales, destroying several homes, a bridge and the local chapel. Ten adults and six ...

In the wake of the Kariba Dam disaster, an old debate has been reignited: How do we reconcile science with cultural explanations when disaster strikes?One of the questions being asked is: Is ...

One of Ukraine’s worst ecological disasters in recent years is now the site of a remarkable natural transformation, according to ecologists. The Kakhovka Reservoir on the Dnieper River in Ukraine’s ...

After a recent dam disaster, Nigerian officials blamed God, climate change and poor people. But experts had warned the dam was at risk well before it collapsed. The officials did nothing. After a ...

A class action lawsuit in the U.K. will decide whether the Fundão tailings dam collapse was the fault of mining companies, Broken Hill Proprietary (BHP) and Miners Vale, which together make up the ...

An agreement by Vale (NYSE:VALE), BHP (BHP) and their Samarco joint venture to pay 170B reais (nearly $30B) in compensation for a deadly 2015 dam collapse in Brazil is expected to end more than 100 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - After two deadly dam disasters that made Vale SA a pariah of the global green movement, Brazil's largest mining company is striving to put the environment and climate at the ...