About two dozen staff - most from the Northland Regional Council - will be taking part in an oil spill exercise at Ruakaka on ...

A major environmental disaster has struck Zambia. A once-thriving river was rendered lifeless overnight due to a massive ...

A catastrophic acid spill from a Chinese-owned copper mine in ... This dam, designed to contain acidic waste, released an estimated 50 million litres of toxic material into a stream feeding ...

This image taken from video Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, shows a breach at a tailing dam at a Sino-Metals Leach Zambia mine near Kitwe. (AP Photo/Richard Kille ) ...

A massive acid spill from a Chinese-owned copper mine in ... On February 18, a tailings dam containing acid waste from the Sino-Metals Leach Zambia copper mine – which is majority-owned by ...

The spill happened on Feb. 18 when a tailings dam that holds acidic waste from a copper mine in the north of the country collapsed, according to investigators from the Engineering Institution of ...

Kamzari explained that most small spills result from deliberate oil waste discharge by ships, especially during periods of minimal regulatory oversight. “Many vessels dispose of oil-contaminated ...

KITWE, Zambia (AP) — Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a Chinese-owned mine that contaminated a major river and could potentially affect ...