The U.S. oversees more than 92,000 dams vital for flood control, power generation, and water supply. Approximately 70 percent ...

Lincoln County Emergency Management warns residents the Lower Flower Creek Diversion Dam is compromised due to flooding conditions.Engineers report the dam has ...

Water that had been rising steadily for days turned suddenly violent when a key flood barrier along the Green River failed, ...

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LONDON -- 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 ...

Inland remnants of tropical cyclones are notorious rainfall flood producers, as the recent tragedy in Texas in early July 2025 illustrated. But on Aug. 7, 1975, 50 years ago today, one of the world's ...

BOGOTA – 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 silence ...

Helena Taliberti spoke to SBS Portuguese from the airport of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, where she was about to return to São Paulo after spending 15 days in Brumadinho desperately looking for her ...