On March 12, 1928, California's St. Francis Dam catastrophically collapsed shortly before midnight, releasing approximately ...

High hazard potential means that if the dam failed, there would be an expected loss of life and severe damage to surrounding areas. Michigan regulates 89 types of these high-hazard dams, 10 of which ...

The Oroville Dam lies upstream from the city of Oroville in Northern California. Nearly 200,000 people in Marysville, Yuba, ...

LONDON (AP) — A London judge ruled Friday that global mining company BHP Group is liable in Brazil's worst environmental disaster when a dam collapse a decade ago unleashed tons of toxic waste into a ...

On 13 August, at precisely 5.39pm, the Inyoni tailings storage facility, part of the Dikwena Chrome plant complex at Samancor’s WCM Mine, east of Brits, burst its seams, unleashing a toxic slurry of ...

The South Australian SES has issued a warning to Echunga residents amid fears a privately-owned dam may collapse.

The compensation agreement with miners BHP BHP.AX, Vale VALE3.SA and Samarco for the Mariana dam collapse in 2015 has been joined by 19 new cities, including the one that was the epicenter of the ...

"3 beaver dams in short channel. Last dam collapsed." ...

China on Thursday dismissed Nepal’s claim that the collapse of a “geological disaster dam” on the Chinese side triggered the massive devastation in Nepal, that has left over 160 dead. The Chinese ...