Technology’s increasingly transformative influence on transportation—from the design and management of infrastructure assets to the expansion of intelligent and interconnected vehicles operating on them
As the 17th year of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) opens, both challenges and progress are evident in the restoration of the ecosystem of South Florida’s fabled River of Grass.
Transportation officials in Ontario believe that 40 bolts securing the deck to beams on one span of the two-span cable-stayed Nipigon River Bridge at Thunder Bay
Legislation to block permanently an Obama-administration rule that seeks to define more clearly federal clean-water jurisdiction is headed to the president.
A scheduled drilling effort to construct a test borehole in the deep shale formations of North Dakota is one of the first moves in the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s formal effort to develop new nuclear storage options for low-level radioactive waste fuel from nuclear powerplants, now often housed on-site in temporary facilities, such as cooling ponds and aboveground concrete casks.
With the successful completion of the $1-billion seawater desalination plant in Carlsbad, Calif., the project’s developer is moving forward with plans to build a second plant at Huntington Beach.
University of Maine researchers are completing the design and engineering work for a full-scale floating hull for the proposed 12-MW Aqua Ventus I offshore wind farm.
The Electrify Africa Act, passed in Congress last month, will spur public and private sector-financed clean energy development in the continent's sub-Saharan region.