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.

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.

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 ...

In 1970, two million tires were dumped into the ocean to build an artificial reef, and 56 years later the consequences are still being cleaned up

Florida dumped up to 2 million tires offshore in the 1970s, and cleanup is still underway more than five decades later.

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 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 ...

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.

Los Angeles coated 700,000 square feet of dark asphalt with reflective material, and local air stayed up to 1.9 degrees cooler during extreme heat

Los Angeles coated 700,000 square feet of asphalt, cutting local heat during extreme weather with a reflective pavement ...