Europe and China with cases of dam failure sites after 2000
The mining industry currently faces a lot of challenges, but one of them is definitely to keep tailing dams from collapsing or leaking. These embankments, which are built by geotechnical engineers with steep slopes using the coarse fraction of the tailings and saving costs, are supposed to be a safe solution, but there are different reasons that eventually cause some of […]
Mining and other industrial activities are destroying coral reefs and causing sea life extinction
A new research made by the University of Florida shows that modern species living in reef habitats that are quickly declining, like Australia’s Great Barrier, are likely to be at risk. The document reached this conclusion after several ancient crustaceans went extinct due to a massive collapse of coral reefs across the planet, showing a direct relation […]