While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans ...

This is the third in a series of stories highlighting the 50th anniversary of the Teton Dam Disaster. Click here to read the first installment.

Inland remnants of tropical cyclones are notorious rainfall flood producers, as the recent tragedy in Texas in early July 2025 illustrated. But on Aug. 7, 1975, 50 years ago today, one of the world's ...

In August 1975, Super Typhoon Nina unleashed extraordinary rainfall across Henan Province, pushing the Banqiao Dam beyond its limits. When the structure failed, it triggered a catastrophic chain ...

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 ...

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 ...

After three torrential storms dumped 10 inches of rain on Northern California in nine days in February 1986, Sacramento’s flood protections were bursting at the seams. Something had to give — and did.