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Rising Risks
For as long as humans have been building cities, they have migrated toward the coasts -- for food, ease of transportation and any number of ecological benefits. Today, it's estimated that more than…
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Playing with Fire
With the coastline of an entire continent burning, a scorched-earth urgency had teams across Australia racing to control the damage. Between September 2019 and January 2020, bushfires ravaged…
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Trees of Life
The world needs more trees—and a lot of them—to stem the damage wrought by mass deforestation. Brazil alone is destroying the equivalent of three football pitches per minute in the Amazon rainforest…
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From the Rubble
Puerto Rico's infrastructure woes began long ago. But a series of earthquakes this year coupled with hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017—which racked upUS$139 billion in damage—exacerbated the U.S.…
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Sustainable Change
Japan's energy landscape has turned upside down in the past few years. A country once dependent on nuclear energy was forced to rush into renewables after the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant…
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Treading Water
An Array Of Projects Is Underway To Keep Cape Town, South Africa From Drying Up
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Power Struggle
When Hurricane Maria blew through Puerto Rico in September, every single home and business on the U.S. island lost power. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and its recovery program teams…
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Damage Prevention
The danger zone for deadly natural disaster knows no boundaries. Last year alone brought severe flooding in China and Peru, devastating earthquakes in Mexico, historic hurricanes in the United…
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Waste Makes Haste
Nuclear cleanup projects have no margin for error. One misstep can expose workers and a region's environment to devastating radioactive contaminants. But a project team at a legacy U.S. site had to…
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Buried Treasure
It turns out diamonds might not be forever. The global supply of rough (unpolished) diamonds is forecast to drop in value terms by 1 to 2 percent annually through 2030, according to Bain & Co., as…
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