A combination of heavy rainstorms and snowmelt caused the water held back by the coffer dam to overtop an emergency spillway, ...

As deadlines for Colorado River negotiations come and go, few are talking about design flaws in the Arizona dam that hold ...

LONDON -- 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 ...

In the rural community of Jangada, in the municipality of ​​Brumadinho in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, the water that supplies local families comes from springs that emerge onsite. In a Youtube video ...

This is the second in a series of stories highlighting the 50th anniversary of the Teton Dam Disaster. Read our first installment here. IDAHO FALLS – Richard Robison was 13 when he saw the collapse of ...

Hundreds of thousands of people remained under evacuation orders Monday in the low levels of Oroville, California, and several areas downstream from Lake Oroville as authorities try to fix erosion of ...

BOGOTA, Colombia(AP) — A week before what the Indigenous Krenak people now call “the death of the river,” they say they could feel it coming. The birds stopped singing, the air grew heavy, and an ...

Thousands of Brazilians braced Monday for the possible collapse of another tailings dam owned by mining giant Vale that threatens to spew millions of tons of toxic sludge over towns, rivers and forest ...

This is the Mullaperiyar Dam. It has been around since well before your grandparents were born. And it could fail at any moment now. What could cause the dam to collapse? How quickly would this lead ...