The evacuation comes little more than a week after two communities located close to nearby dams were forced to leave their homes on similar fears of dam failures ... mining detritus known as ...

An international institute that seeks to improve the safety of reservoirs that store toxic waste from mining known as tailings kicked off Tuesday, six years after the collapse of a dam owned by ...

In November 2015, Brazil saw one of its worst environmental disasters, as the Fundão dam, which contained toxic mining waste, ...