Auckland switched on a 1.66-billion-dollar tunnel built to stop sewage overflows, and what it swallows in one storm is hard to picture

Auckland's $1.66 billion Central Interceptor is now fully live, designed to stop sewage overflows and protect waterways ...

Cahora Bassa is back to 56% after years of drought, and the restriction Mozambique can finally lift reaches three countries

Cahora Bassa has recovered to 56% after years of drought, giving Mozambique room to ease restrictions and boost power output.

California is building its biggest reservoir in 50 years, and nobody has answered whether there is enough water left to fill it

California's Sites Reservoir could hold 1.5 million acre-feet, but water limits may leave much of that capacity unused.

Repairing Rough River Lake dam will take eight years and 800 million dollars, and the work starts on the side nobody sees

Rough River Dam begins an eight-year, $891 million repair to strengthen its hidden foundation and reduce long-term flood risks.

Engineers went 50 meters down for Brazil’s deepest foundation, and the layer they had to reach sets the height of the tower above

Engineers drove 197 piles up to 50 meters deep to anchor Brazil’s Raízes SB tower in challenging soil beneath Sinop.

Penn researchers copied elephant skin to make a cement tile that cools buildings with no electricity, and the cracks do the work

Penn researchers copied elephant skin to create a cement tile that cools buildings with water, cracks, and no electricity.

A Massey Ferguson combine is still working the harvest after 55 years, and its owner will not say what he paid to keep it running

A 55-year-old Massey Ferguson 187 is still harvesting grain in 2026, proving simple machinery can survive decades with proper ...

The concrete in Hoover Dam needed more than a century to cool on its own, and what engineers buried in the wall is still there

Hoover Dam's concrete needed decades to cool, so engineers buried 582 miles of steel pipe inside the massive structure.

A military bridge dropped into place after four years of isolation, and the 4,000 people it reconnects had been crossing another way

A military-built modular bridge reconnects 4,000 people in rural Tolima after four years of isolation and restores access for ...

Roman piers have stood 2,000 years while modern concrete fails in fifty, and the seawater everyone blames is what binds them

Roman concrete survived for 2,000 years because seawater can trigger minerals that reinforce its ancient structure instead of ...

Diamondback terrapins halted construction on a Route 6 bridge, and the law is what stops crews from simply moving them

Diamondback terrapins halted Route 6 bridge work in Massachusetts, forcing crews to protect nesting turtles before ...

Lake Mead sits within ten feet of shutting down most of Hoover Dam’s turbines, and that power does not come back quickly

Lake Mead is nearing Hoover Dam's critical turbine level, threatening hydropower supplies and pushing up electricity costs.