FILE PHOTO: Soldier helps a member of a rescue team on Paraopeba River as they search for victims of a collapsed tailings dam owned by Brazilian mining company Vale SA, in Brumadinho BRASILIA (Reuters ...

In 2019, the collapse of an iron-ore tailings dam in Brumadinho, southeastern Brazil, killed 272 people, flattened entire villages, and caused widespread environmental damage. Since then, engineers ...

Brazilian activists continue to campaign for justice two years on from the Brumadinho mining disaster in Brazil. May Brumadinho be treated not only as a local case ...

Federal Police in Minas Gerais, Brazil, expect to receive the forensic report by the end of March on the cause of the tailings liquefaction that led to the dam collapse at Vale’s (NYSE: VALE) Córrego ...

Dr Breno Nunes received funding from British Council to organise Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshops. Flávio Hourneaux Junior received funding from Brazilian Agency CNPq and British Council to ...

The Brazilian Federal Court has accepted the complaint filed by the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) against 16 people and the companies Vale and Tüv Süd for the rupture of the Córrego do Feijão dam in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Workers at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine were on their lunch break on January 25 2019 when a dam at the ...

A dam that held back mining waste has collapsed in Brazil, inundating a nearby community with reddish-brown sludge, killing at least 34 people and leaving hundreds of others missing. Nine people have ...

The reason why the Brumadinho dam broke specifically three years after the pond was last loaded with tailings has remained unclear until now. Using numerical modelling, researchers at ETH Zurich have ...

Elias Nunes was in his truck when the dam collapsed The friendship between Josiana Resende and Natalia de Oliveira is one born out of loss - they got to know each other after the dam collapsed at the ...