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 ...

Explore the most catastrophic dam failures in history—massive dam collapses, deadly floods, and shocking footage of water ...

This weekend the community will remember its dead on the 100th anniversary of the tragedy. Three academics have warned it could happen again ...

Those affected by the dam collapse and now living in resettlements say community ties and traditions have not been restored ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Residents of the valley of Vajont in Italy had reservations about a new hydroelectric dam--especially when cracks began to appear in the nearby ...

(Reuters) -Global miners BHP Group and Vale have offered around $1.4 billion to settle a class action lawsuit in the United Kingdom tied to one of Brazil's worst-ever environmental disasters, the ...

Lawyers for about 200,000 Brazilian claimants, whose multi-billion dollar lawsuit against Anglo-Australian miner BHP (BHPB.L), (BHP.AX) over a 2015 dam collapse was struck down last November, said on ...

The front page of the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 1928 Los Angeles Times It was three minutes before the stroke of midnight on a windy March 12, 1928, when the St. Francis Dam broke. Many of the ...

Seventy-five years ago, on 19 October 1950, Burrinjuck Dam became the scene of one of the state’s worst industrial ...

Toxic waste from a Chinese mine in Zambia washed through homes and fields. Compensation offers are tied to nondisclosure.

Some dangers hide in plain sight — what looks like a peaceful lake or a simple hole in the ground can, in reality, be a dam. These man-made barriers hold back massive amounts of water, and when they ...