On March 14, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, responsible for transporting water to Los Angeles County, collapsed and was considered one of the greatest civil engineering disasters of the 20th century in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After three torrential storms dumped 10 inches of rain on Northern California in nine days in February 1986, Sacramento’s flood ...

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 ...

BHP Found Liable For Dam Collapse in Landmark Court Decision Mrs Justice O'Farrell ruled that BHP was liable for the dam collapse, one of the worst environmental disasters in recent years, leaving the ...

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 ...

A judge has ruled that a company can be held liable for a dam collapse which devastated indigenous communities in Brazil and became the country's worst environmental catastrophe. At the High Court in ...

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 ...