In addition to precious metals, Latin America is rich in critical minerals, such as copper, and lithium. Beyond these minerals, the continent has potential in graphite, nickel, manganese and rare ...

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Oil from a massive 2019 spill along Brazil's coastline traveled more than 5,200 miles across the Atlantic Ocean before washing up on the shores of Palm Beach, Florida, according to ...

After three torrential storms dumped 10 inches of rain on Northern California in nine days in February 1986, Sacramento’s flood protections were bursting at the seams. Something had to give — and did.

SAO PAULO — The Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Brazilian Amazon, one of the world’s largest, was designed to channel water from the Xingu River in a way that would avoid the need for large ...

...On January 25, 2019, the collapse of a tailings dam at Vale S.A.’s Córrego do Feijão mine in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, resulted in 272 fatalities. The majority were workers—employees of Vale and ...

LONDON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - BHP (BHP.AX), opens new tab was on Monday refused permission to appeal against a ruling that it is liable for the 2015 collapse of a dam in southeastern Brazil, in a London ...