Firemen escort flood victims in Baldwin Hills in the aftermath of the Baldwin Hills Dam disaster. They wade through the street using a safety rope. Photo dated: Dec. 15, 1963. Photography by Joe ...

On this day in 1898, Maria “Mary” S. Ruiz was born in San Francisquito Canyon to a pioneering ranch family whose roots in the ...

When the Edenville Dam failed in May 2020, I found myself viewing this disaster through three different lenses: as a homeowner who lost the lower level of my home, as a realtor helping buyers and ...

JAGERSFONTEIN - The family of a woman who has been missing since the Jagersfontein Dam disaster wants closure. Mantele ...

It was Europe’s tallest dam — a masterpiece of engineering and pride — until a mountainside collapsed into its reservoir, unleashing a wall of water that erased entire villages within minutes. The ...

Despite two major deadly mining disasters since 2015, Brazilian iron ore miner Vale SA has not complied with a number of commitments signed with authorities to prevent a third disaster, federal ...

Some dangers hide in plain sight — what looks like a peaceful lake or a simple hole in the ground can, in reality, be a dam. These man-made barriers hold back massive amounts of water, and when they ...

(Reuters) -Global miners BHP Group and Vale have offered around $1.4 billion to settle a class action lawsuit in the United Kingdom tied to one of Brazil's worst-ever environmental disasters, the ...

Mega-dams planned by China and India on the Brahmaputra and other Himalayan rivers threaten a humanitarian and environmental ...