Buenos Aires plans to remove 20 railway crossings between two neighborhoods and replace them with a green corridor along the Sarmiento line

Buenos Aires wants to bury the Sarmiento line, remove 20 crossings and turn the surface into a new green corridor.

The United States spent $13 million on a tunnel-boring machine for a Nevada nuclear waste site, and nobody wants to buy it back

A $13 million tunnel-boring machine helped carve Yucca Mountain before the U.S. nuclear waste project was halted.

The Netherlands says a new North Sea barrier would make it unnecessary to ever upgrade its two giant storm surge barriers, Oosterschelde and Haringvliet

The Netherlands is weighing a giant North Sea barrier that could reshape flood protection, freshwater storage and its ...

Houston spent nearly 3 billion dollars widening one freeway to 26 lanes, and within three years the drive was taking up to 51% longer

Houston widened the Katy Freeway to 26 lanes, but traffic later surged, exposing the limits of adding more road capacity.

A declassified 1949 study found that in a nuclear attack on Russia, US losses would have been high enough to exhaust its aircraft and crews

A declassified 1949 study warned a US nuclear strike on the Soviet Union could exhaust bombers, crews and vital resources.

In 1977, the US buried 120,000 tons of radioactive waste inside a concrete dome in the Pacific, and rising seas are now threatening to expose it

Runit Dome holds radioactive waste from U.S. nuclear tests, but rising seas and groundwater are raising new concerns.

Inaugurated as the world’s third-biggest suspension bridge, the Tacoma Narrows structure began twisting in 68 km/h winds and collapsed just four months after ope…

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge twisted in 42 mph winds and collapsed just four months after opening, changing bridge engineering ...

Oil workers in Vaca Muerta earn 8.9 million pesos on average, while Argentina workers in the Northwest region earn just 1.4 million

Oil workers in Vaca Muerta earn far more than those in Argentina’s Northwest, revealing a striking regional pay gap.

Panama arrested six people accused of diverting a stream’s course to run an illegal mining operation in the area

Authorities in Panama arrested six people, including two minors, after finding what they described as an illegal gold ...

A Florida nuclear power plant was surrounded by 168 miles of canals decades ago, and American crocodiles turned the network into their home

A Florida nuclear plant's 168-mile canal network has become a major breeding ground for American crocodiles, with a record ...

A Bavarian farmer mounted solar panels 23 feet above the poles holding up his hops, and the harvest made more electricity but fewer cones

A Bavarian hop farm raised solar panels 23 feet above its crops, revealing how agrivoltaics can produce power without ...

Goodbye to bricks: foam concrete up to 87% lighter is filling walls, and a 2025 study found its insulation improved by 23 %

Foam concrete can make walls up to 87% lighter, while new research shows how its air-filled pores improve insulation.