Reuters

Brazil evacuates towns near Vale, ArcelorMittal dams on fears of collapse

BELO HORIZONTE/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Some 700 people were evacuated early on Friday from Brazilian towns near two separate tailings dams operated by Vale SA and ArcelorMittal on mounting fears of ...
Digital Journal

Brazil’s Vale to pay $7 bn in damages for deadly 2019 dam collapse

Brazilian mining giant Vale said Thursday it had agreed to pay $7 billion in damages over the 2019 collapse of a mining waste dam that unleashed a flood of toxic sludge and killed 270 people. It is ...
Reuters

Brazil probe into Vale dam collapse to conclude within days, prosecutor says

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A criminal investigation into the fatal collapse of a dam owned by mining firm Vale SA should be concluded in the coming days, a Brazilian prosecutor said on Tuesday, with ...
Digital Journal

Brazil judge orders Vale to pay for all damages from dam collapse

A Brazilian state judge on Tuesday ordered mining giant Vale to pay for all the damage caused by a tailings dam collapse that killed hundreds of people in one of the country’s worst industrial ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

BHP Group found liable in Brazil dam collapse

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 ...
Newsday

A decade after Brazil's deadly dam collapse, Indigenous peoples demand justice on the eve of COP30

BOGOTA, Colombia — 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 unusual ...