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A mining disaster in the Brazilian town of Brumadinho. By Vijay Prashad. Published February 8, 2019 4:00AM (EST) In this Oct. 11, 2016 photo, Lazimar Caliari pushes a wheelbarrow loaded with ...
A decade after a dam collapsed in Brazil, sending a deluge of toxic mud into villages and waterways, residents complain of an ...
A woman cries as she sees the damages caused by the mining waste a day after the collapse of a dam from an iron-ore mine belonging to Brazil's mining company Vale in Brumadinho on January 26, 2019 ...
Brazil’s mining dam disaster, the worst in the country’s history, will continue to cause irreparable environmental damage for years. By Juliana Jiménez Jaramillo Dec 03, 2015 7:30 AM ...
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed an agreement worth tens of billions of dollars with the mining companies responsible for a 2015 dam collapse that was one of the country's ...
The disaster brings Brazil’s mining industry under scrutiny. After the 2015 dam breach, despite lip service, little was done to change the regulatory structure at similar dams.
Brazil’s federal prosecutors are suing mining companies BHP Billiton and Vale for $44 billion in damages over the Samarco dam collapse. CNN values your feedback 1.
Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster have turned to a United Kingdom court for compensation, almost nine years after tonnes of toxic mining waste poured into a major waterway ...
Brazil’s mining-reliant Mariana region was covered in a sludge of heavy metals when a ... which was swept away in the Samarco mining disaster on Nov. 5, 2020, in the Mariana district of Minas ...
Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, on Nov. 5, 2015, took their case for compensation to a UK court on Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, almost nine years after tons of toxic mining waste ...