Torrential rain in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais killed 10 people in two days, according to an official report Tuesday, which warned of more intense downpours in the region. The deaths were ...

Two more bodies were found Sunday afternoon after a massive rock fell on top of several tourist boats in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais on Saturday, raising the death toll to 10, according to ...

In the three years since the Mariana rupture killed 19 people, the regulation of the industry has gotten less, not more, rigorous in Minas Gerais state.

Minas Gerais state prosecutors also charged Vale and the German safety-certification company TUV SUD with environmental violations.

[1/5]A view shows the site where a wall of rock collapsed on top of motor boats below a waterfall as firefighters of Minas Gerais state (not pictured) seek for victims, in Capitolio, in Minas ...

SÃO PAULO—Brazilian miner Vale agreed Thursday to pay $7 billion in compensation to the state of Minas Gerais where the collapse of its dam two years ago killed 270 people, polluted rivers and ...

The death toll from a Brazilian dam collapse at an iron mine rose to 65 on Monday, according to officials.

Over the weekend, state courts and the justice ministry in the state of Minas Gerais ordered the freezing of about $1.5 billion from Vale assets for state emergency services and told the company ...

MINAS GERAIS, Brazil — A towering slab of rock has broken from a cliff and toppled onto pleasure boaters drifting near a waterfall on a Brazilian lake. Local officials say Saturday's accident ...

Eight years since the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam in Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, researchers have highlighted ongoing environmental and social devastation caused by the disaster.

Mining workers are caught in a horrifying wave of iron ore waste in the state of Minas Gerais.