The class-action lawsuit in London's High Court demands an estimated $47 billion in compensation from mining giant BHP. BHP owns 50 percent of Samarco, the Brazilian company that operates an iron ore ...

For the people of Gillette, dropping coal… Nation’s largest coal mining company files for bankruptcy ... coal miners in the worst U.S. mining disaster in four… More than a week after an ...

Huskar Memorial in Nabs Wood commemorating the Huskar Pit Disaster of 1838 on the outskirts of Silkstone Common. There's a profusion of deciduous trees and, for much of the year, greenness in and ...

At every turn, it is a disaster. In stark contrast, Trump’s Department of Agriculture removed more than $262 million in costs every year. This reduced regulatory burden got the government out of ...

Vishnu Kushta Gimonkar, 79, owns what used to be a 10,000-square metre field, in Pilgao, Bicholim sub-district, in the heart of Goa’s iron ore mining belt, 28 kilometres from capital Panjim.

That's something called "disaster fatigue," and it affects many people who have survived disasters. "Disaster fatigue." First, it's not an official medical diagnosis. However, groups such as FEMA ...

1998 Bruce Willis And Will Patton In "Armageddon." The genre of Disaster films sometimes gets a bad rap. Yes, they are often predictable. Some are more spectacle than substance. However ...

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The tragedy in the southeastern town of Mariana unleashed a torrent of almost 45 million cubic metres of highly toxic mining waste sludge ... At the time of the disaster, BHP had global ...

Communist Party leaders will never admit to any of that, but even they recognize the policy has been an economic disaster. Intended to prevent the population from expanding beyond what a ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal government on Friday reached a multibillion-dollar settlement with the mining companies ... country's worst-ever environmental disaster. Under the agreement ...