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What If the World's Largest Dam Failed?

A worst-case collapse of China’s Three Gorges Dam sounds like a nightmare: a wall of water racing down the Yangtze, overwhelming cities like Wuhan and Shanghai, crippling a basin that powers about 40 ...
Hometown Station

Today In SCV History: March 12, 1928 – St. Francis Dam Collapses, Over 450 Dead

Just before midnight on this day in 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, and remains one of the most deadly civil engineering ...
PBS

Judge finds BHP Group liable in dam collapse that led to Brazil's worst environmental disaster

LONDON (AP) — 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 ...
AOL

Remembering the Teton Dam’s contentious backstory 50 years after its collapse

REXBURG — Don Ellis overlooked the Teton River as he watched a wall of water break through the newly-completed Teton Dam. It was 11:55 a.m. on June 5, 1976, and the local radio personality was ...
KOIN 6

A decade after Brazil’s deadly dam collapse, Indigenous peoples demand justice on the eve of COP30

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 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 ...