How to make sure Biden's infrastructure plan can hold up to climate change – and save money
With adaptive design, infrastructure is ready to be expanded in the future. It's working for the Dutch.
March 30, 2021 • ~8 min
With adaptive design, infrastructure is ready to be expanded in the future. It's working for the Dutch.
Researchers are developing ways to lock captured CO2 into cement. It could help rebuild America’s crumbling infrastructure and deal with climate change at the same time.
De-icing salts help us get around in winter, but they corrode cars, crack roads and contaminate rivers and lakes. Scientists are working to develop better options by imitating natural antifreezes.
The collapse of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico was a result of financial neglect – and was a long time coming.
Slashing carbon emissions by 68% by 2030 will depend on using the UK's infrastructure strategy effectively.
Millions of miles of fences crisscross the Earth's surface. They divide ecosystems and affect wild species in ways that often are harmful, but are virtually unstudied.
What if roads and bridges could signal structural problems that need repair?
Are facilities that produce necessities like energy and clean water doomed to be ugly? Not when artists and landscape architects help design them.
A new study forecasts that thousands of miles of new road construction will cut through tiger habitat across Asia by 2050. Planning can make these projects more tiger-friendly.
Warmer waters, heavier storms and nutrient pollution are a triple threat to Great Lakes cities' drinking water. The solution: Cutting nutrient releases and installing systems to filter runoff.
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