The Fire Brigade of Minas Gerais announced it will resume on August 27th the search for still missing bodies of 11 victims of the dam collapse in Brumadinho last year, which killed 270 people. Work ...

Preliminary hearings start February 23 in Belo Horizonte. Until May 2027, victims, witnesses, and defendants will be heard. The perpetrators remain unpunished.

Brazilian activists continue to campaign for justice two years on from the Brumadinho mining disaster in Brazil. May Brumadinho be treated not only as a local case ...

Federal Police in Minas Gerais, Brazil, expect to receive the forensic report by the end of March on the cause of the tailings liquefaction that led to the dam collapse at Vale’s (NYSE: VALE) Córrego ...

In 2019, the collapse of an iron-ore tailings dam in Brumadinho, southeastern Brazil, killed 272 people, flattened entire villages, and caused widespread environmental damage. Since then, engineers ...

Dr Breno Nunes received funding from British Council to organise Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshops. Flávio Hourneaux Junior received funding from Brazilian Agency CNPq and British Council to ...

Brumadinho, Brazil - Hope that loved ones had survived a tsunami of iron ore mine waste from a dam collapse in Brazil was turning to anguish and anger over the increasing likelihood that many of the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Workers at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine were on their lunch break on January 25 2019 when a dam at the ...