Puerto Montt will get a new 4.2-hectare metropolitan park with an artificial lagoon, an amphitheater and walking trails, part of a major urban investment

Puerto Montt is getting a $22 million metropolitan park with a lagoon, amphitheater, trails and new green space.

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 ...

A US company found a way to electrify diesel trucks without touching a single bolt on the combustion engine

A new electric dolly could cut diesel use in heavy trucks without replacing the combustion engine or entire fleet.

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.

A new plug-and-play home battery can save households up to 400 euros a year, and unlike most systems, it works without any solar panels

Plug-in home batteries could cut electric bills by storing cheap grid power and releasing it when electricity prices rise.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...