A major water pipeline upgrade is set to begin this summer in Corvallis and will replace a vulnerable pipeline with a larger, ...

Alpine rain and snow take much longer to percolate into western U.S. streams than previously thought, adding complexity to ...

LifeArk's amphibious housing can move with rising water, which lets people build in areas with high flood risk.

New data shows that water levels in major reservoirs including Lakes Mead and Powell are well below average for this time of ...

Researchers have assessed the factors impacting food safety in items that were provided to victims of an earthquake in Turkey. The study examined the food ...

When the island of Santorini was rattled by thousands of small earthquakes earlier this year, many people were left mystified ...

AirBattery is said to reliably store energy for weeks while requiring a lot less land, water, and capital than more common pumped hydro storage systems. Here's how it works: A pump cycles water ...

The facility was heavily damaged by a deadly tsunami that followed a massive offshore earthquake in 2011. Water must still be continuously pumped in to cool the radioactive fuel, leading to an ...

In California, where the next "Big One" is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...

In the mountains of Tennessee, not far from Chattanooga, there is the Raccoon Mountain picturesque hydroelectric power plant.