Australia’s biggest mining company is liable to compensate hundreds of thousands of people devastated by a fatal dam collapse in Brazil, a court has ruled.

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 major river, ...

By Shanna Hanbury A U.K. judge has found that the Australian multinational mining company BHP is liable for a 2015 dam collapse in southeastern Brazil. The incident killed 19 people and unleashed at ...

The ruling potentially exposes the mining company to billions of dollars in compensation claims.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

Climate COP30 Indigenous Dam Bursts FILE - A rescue worker walks between destroyed houses after a dam burst in the town of Bento Rodrigues, Minas Gerais state, Brazil ...

A UK judge ruled that BHP is strictly and fault-based liable under Brazilian law for the 2015 Fundão dam collapse that killed 19 people and devastated communities. The court allowed over 700,000 ...