Below are two articles that may be of interest to many of our readers and CGS members, related to tailings dams and geology/geohazards, respectively.
Brazil prosecutors charge 16 people with murder in dam collapse that killed 270 (The Guardian)
“Brazilian prosecutors have charged 16 people – including the former CEO of mining giant Vale – with murder and environmental crimes over the collapse of a tailings dam which killed 270 people on 25 January 2019.”
Boulders Don’t Just Roll. They Bounce. (NY Times)
“Craters in a Chilean desert preserve the trajectories of giant rocks, allowing scientists to study the physics of rockslides.”