Brazil storms have sparked floods and caused a hydroelectric dam to collapse, with at least 29 people dead and 60 missing. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited the country's south on ...

Brazil's environment agency gave its definitive approval Wednesday for construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, a controversial 17 billion US dollars project in the Amazon that has drawn ...

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks at a signing ceremony of a compensation agreement for damages caused by ...

A dam burst at a mine co-owned by Vale and BHP Billiton in southeastern Brazil on Thursday, submerging nearby homes and vehicles. Photo: Record TV ...

Brazil's Vice-President Hamilton Mourão said ... as though we were looking for our own parents." The dam break caused a sea of muddy sludge to bury the site's cafeteria where workers were eating ...

He points to the collapse at a Vale mining dam in Mariana in 2015, Brazil's worst environmental disaster. To the questionable mining practices and poor safety standards at Brumadinho. To the ...

Brazil stringer photographer Leo Correa for a compelling story and photos on a mother desperate to find her son after the Vale mining dam collapse killed more than 100, with many still missing. In the ...

Claimants in a trial underway in London’s High Court over BHP’s role in a catastrophic dam collapse in Brazil painted a grim picture of “red flags” that they allege the global miner failed ...

The collapse last month of a Vale dam in the same area unleashed an avalanche of mud killing an estimated 300 people in Brazil's deadliest mining disaster Around 200 residents were evacuated from ...