Jagersfontein Disaster: Owners knew the dam would burst, but kept filling it anyway

A recent investigation into the Jagersfontein tailings dam disaster reveals alarming negligence by its owners, who may have known about the dam's instability since 2019. What does this mean for the ...

Analyzing MSU's J Batt's Quiet Movement in Hiring Fitzgerald

All was quiet from the Michigan State athletic department for several weeks. Speculation swirled on whether Jonathan Smith ...
Human Rights WatchOpinion

An Opportunity to Address Mining Abuses Globally

When 29-year-old Norbert Amoya went to fetch water from a river in northern Zambia earlier this year, he found large numbers ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Judge finds BHP Group liable in dam collapse that led to Brazil’s worst environmental disaster

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, ...
Associated Press

London judge finds global mining company BHP Group liable in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster

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The Boston Globe

A decade after Brazil’s deadly dam collapse, Indigenous peoples demand justice on the eve of COP30

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 ...