Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster took their case for compensation to a UK court on Monday, almost nine years after tons of toxic mining waste poured into a major waterway, killing 19 ...

The river, which the Krenak Indigenous people revere as a deity, was polluted so badly that it has yet to recover.

The class-action lawsuit in London's High Court demands an estimated $47 billion in compensation from mining giant BHP. BHP owns 50 percent of Samarco, the Brazilian company that operates an iron ore ...

The long-awaited trial, fueled by litigation funding, kicked off with accusations that global mining giant BHP knew that an ...