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Crude Awakening
After global crude oil prices dropped precipitously between 2014 and 2016, Nigeria's economy slipped into recession. At Cakasa, where we earn revenue primarily by executing projects for major oil-…
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Slow Flowing
Just two months after his 2014 election, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a project to clean up the badly polluted Ganges River. "Ma Ganga has called me," he said in one speech, using…
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Crash and Learn
Venezuela, once seen as Latin America's economic superstar, is a country in crisis. Collapsing global oil prices have taken their toll: The economy contracted 10 percent in 2016 as inflation…
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Coral Support
Coral reefs have seen much better days. From the United States Gulf Coast to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, ocean water temperature and acidity levels are rising quickly, triggering the bleaching…
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Three of a kind
Purpose-driven projects have the potential to change the world. With a clear mission and careful planning, project teams can solve society's biggest problems, leaving an impact that will last for…
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A change in climate
Interview with Kamil Jagodzinski, senior project manager, Artic Portal, Akureyri, Iceland.
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Powering the future
Learn how the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) successfully mitigated risk to design and build a state-of-the-art facility for the research of alternative energies, earning their Energy Systems…
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In shipshape
For more than a year, the Costa Concordia cruise ship sat half-submerged off the coast of Italy--a striking reminder of the disaster that befell it on 13 January 2012. That night, 32 people died…
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Sea Change
After nearly a decade of drought in South Australia, the clouds gathered and the skies finally broke open, filling the state's water reservoirs. But as the rains fell in mid-2010, so did public…
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Weather alert
The world's oceans are rising and so is pressure on civic authorities to prepare. By the end of this century, sea levels could increase more than three feet. That's especially dire news for the…
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