Halt the geo-engineering tide
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Geo-engineering schemes, such as ocean fertilisation, to curb climate change will do more harm than good.
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Designers who are sounding the alarm on global homogenization make a certain kind of sense.
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How do you build a bridge in a region that is bordered by some of the most dangerous fault lines in the world? If you&#39;re the California Department of Transportation, you pull out every engineering trick in the book.
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Earthquakes can be triggered by the Earthâs tides, UCLA scientists confirmed Oct. 21 in Science Express, the online journal of Science.
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When an earthquake knocked down a section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, engineers vowed to make a stronger span. But years later, that plan is still mired in controversy. Part 2 of 2. By Amit Asaravala.
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Three-dimensional technology is changing the way buildings are designed and built--but the industry will have to change, too.
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Dwindling petroleum engineers create another challenge for the industry.
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The American Geophysical Union's warning Thursday reflects an increasingly vocal scientific community.
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Is a sea change about to occur? Don't count on it.
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By Diane Mastrull, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Sep. 24--If the region has a prayer of controlling flooding, communities and the developers who build in them must embrace the new technologies of storm-water management.   Experts have made that point repeatedly in recent years.
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Comment is free: Tristram Hunt:  Concreting over the countryside would repeat the mistakes of the 1930s, creating a new surburbia.
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Rise of the Machinesâ¢ scuttles a little closer
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Storing nuclear waste underground at Yucca Mountain for 100,000 years is a terrible idea. A better approach may be to buy some time--until new containment technologies mature.
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Adding location data to images is a pain right now, but geotagging was worth it, and it'll get easier. Here are my warnings and a wish list.
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Letter Can collective database licensing cure this tragedy of the commons?
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The next big development in computer technology may be growing in the muck of a nearby riverbed.
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It might be wise to know our geoengineering options just in case climate change comes early. In Beyond the Beyond.