Understanding these processes is crucial for developing effective early warning systems and improving dam design to withstand extreme weather events. Furthermore, a global analysis of tailings dam ...

In January 2000, a disaster like this happened at the Baia Mare Tailings Dam in Romania. A tailings dam is a type of embankment dam, designed to contain mining waste. Melting snow and pounding ...

Six months after the red mud tragedy in Hungary, tailings dams in Central and Eastern Europe continue to be a major cause for concern in the region. We visit Medet, the largest tailings dam in the ...

An international institute that seeks to improve the safety of reservoirs that store toxic waste from mining known as tailings kicked off Tuesday, six years after the collapse of a dam owned by ...

The president of the company involved in the Mount Polley environmental disaster that poured millions of cubic metres of mine ...