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Concrete: the world's 3rd largest CO2 emitter

Researchers release integrated dataset of hydrological and thermal deformation in Qinghai-Tibet engineering corridor

Climate change threatens hydropower energy security in the Amazon basin

Lack of power grids sealed fate for early electric cars

IT outage hits one of Europe's biggest cloud computing groups

Growing demand for deeper wells is tapping ancient water reserves

New 'risk triage' platform pinpoints compounding threats to US infrastructure

Critical groundwater supplies may never recover from drought

The hydropower industry is talking the talk, but fine words won't save our last wild rivers

Restoring power during severe storms

China is financing infrastructure projects around the world, and many could harm nature and Indigenous communities

Storm Nicholas weakens but leaves 450,000 Texas homes without power (Update)

Compound hazards pose increased risk to highly populated regions in the Himalayas

First the snow vanished, then the mudslides began: Mount Shasta's summer of pain

Miles-long Gulf oil spill after Ida investigated by Coast Guard

After this desert city faced dry taps, California rushed through emergency water funding

Can burying power lines protect storm-wracked electric grids? Not always

Drought squeezes Brazil's electricity supply

Scientists cite destructive dangers of climate change, land use in mountain ranges

'Desert': drying Euphrates threatens disaster in Syria

Hurricane Ida pummels Louisiana, knocks out power in New Orleans

EXPLAINER: Is New Orleans protected from a hurricane?

LED streetlights contribute to insect population declines: study

17 inches of rain devastate rural Tennessee; at least 10 die

21 dead as torrential rainfall batters central China

Death toll in Turkey's flash floods soars to 27

Is your home at risk of experiencing a natural disaster?

Shift away from earthen homes is environmentally damaging

Over 160,000 miles of rivers are at risk of losing their free-flowing status due to dams

A drought-hit California town finds itself sinking into the ground

Minor volcanic eruptions could 'cascade' into global catastrophe, experts argue

Study reveals an increase in the frequency of nuclear power outages caused by climate change

Protecting Port Fourchon: Scientists pinpoint how to manage sediment to prevent land loss and improve hurricane prepared

Climate change will impact future water availability for hydropower and public water supply in Wales

A 20-foot sea wall won't save Miami: How living structures can help protect the coast

Villagers flee fresh floods in central China as typhoon approaches

Monsoon floods leave thousands stranded in India

Santa Ana winds and power line failures found to be behind autumn and winter fires in Southern California

California firm to bury 10,000 miles of power lines to stop wildfires

Merkel: No way back on German plan to end nuclear power use

Instead of braving the river, these endangered salmon take the highway

Mapping extreme snowmelt and its potential dangers

After street lights in an entire county were swapped to LEDs, light pollution got worse

Bill aims to spend billions to fix nation's aging dams

Most buildings were designed for an earlier climate – here’s what will happen as global warming accelerates

Washington state blackouts hit same customers repeatedly

Extreme events: Ecosystems offer cost-effective protection

Amazon hydropower plant contributes significant greenhouse emissions: study

A Century from Now Concrete Will be Nothing But Rubble

Low-flow research on Colorado River sheds light on eventual new normal for Grand Canyon

Research shows Alaska infrastructure at risk of earlier failure

Natural hazards threaten 57% of US structures

Coastal cities face their mortality on the climate 'frontline'

New report highlights best practices for sustainable rural infrastructure

The wildfire one-two: First the burn, then the landslides

UK struggling to keep pace with climate change impacts

New evidence links insect population collapse to dams

How is the Western U.S. drought impacting the power grid?

Global internet outage points to weakness of the cloud infrastructure, says expert

Historic drought threatens Brazil's economy

Ivory Coast prays for rain to ease energy crunch

Fastly blames global internet outage on software bug

Global glitch: Swaths of internet go down after cloud outage

Solar storms are back, threatening life as we know it on Earth

Railway infrastructure susceptible to greater damages from climate change

Major US pipeline struggles to reopen after ransomware attack

Women-dominated child and home care work is critical infrastructure that has long been devalued

Energy giant sued as Spain power lines kill 100s of birds

Keeping an eye on infrastructure systems: 4 tactics

Fire at French cloud computing firm disrupts websites

Southern cities hit hard by storms face new crisis: No water

Weather experts: Lack of planning caused cold catastrophe

Kia and Hyundai recovering from days-long network outages

Winter weather closes Texas chip plants, worsening shortages

Power outages across the Plains: 4 questions answered about weather-driven blackouts

PowerOutage.US collects, records, and aggregates live power outage data from utilities all over the United States, with the goal to create the single most reliable and complete source of power outage information available.

Millions endure record cold without power; at least 20 dead

Himalayan glacier disaster highlights climate change risks

To confront climate change, we need to understand the environmental footprint of global supply chains

Aging dams are 'ticking time bombs'

Hack exposes vulnerability of cash-strapped US water plants

Controls needed to stop zebra mussels invading Great Britain

An army of sewer robots could keep our pipes clean, but they'll need to learn to communicate

Widespread internet outages hit northeast U.S.

Aging dams pose growing threat: UN

Researchers propose a framework for evaluating the impacts of climate change on California's water and energy systems

Watch out LA: Feds calculate riskiest, safest places in US

Warming world will fry power plant production in coming years

Massive outage hits Google services worldwide

Two centuries of US energy usage, one interactive graphic

California braces for power shutoffs and warm, windy weekend

Cement-free concrete beats corrosion and gives fatbergs the flush
Humans ignite almost every wildfire that threatens homes
Nuclear plants in Arabian Sea face tsunami risk
California fires bring more chopper rescues, power shutoffs
Nearly 60 bridges, 2,000 houses wrecked by typhoon in North Korea
Exploring the impact of climate change on energy systems at both a global and regional scale
Damage from whopper hurricanes rising for many reasons
When bushfires meet old septic tanks, a disease outbreak is only a matter of time
California could see more rolling outages amid heat wave
Cybercriminals are now targeting critical electricity infrastructure
Research probes repercussions of seafloor activity on society
Thousands of miles of planned Asian roads threaten the heart of tiger habitat
Power shortages will remain a big challenge in a post-COVID-19 South Africa
New geoelectric hazard map shows potential vulnerability to high-voltage power grid for two-thirds of the U.S.
The post-pandemic city: Expert on how the coronavirus will impact future cities
Amazon road-building projects would result in deforestation of 2.4 million hectares
If it's below 40 degrees in South Florida, the forecast calls for falling iguanas
How climate-related weather conditions disrupt power plants and affect people
Study finds flooding damage to levees is cumulative—and often invisible
The politics and cost of adapting to climate change in New York City
Power supply fears as troops called to battle Australia bushfires (Update)
Experts explain the effect of climate change on infrastructure
Aging US dams pose risk to thousands
Mega-infrastructure projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America are reshaping development
Climate change could hasten deterioration of US bridge infrastructure
California turns off power to millions to prevent wildfires
Predicting the impact of climate change on bridge safety
Global bank urges cities to invest in new infrastructure to adapt to climate change
Planned roads would be 'dagger in the heart' for Borneo's forests and wildlife
Post-typhoon blackout raises disaster prep questions in Japan
Giant 'sandscaping' plan to save Norfolk coast will only put off the inevitable
Whaley Bridge dam collapse is a wake-up call: Concrete infrastructure demands maintenance
US infrastructure unprepared for increasing frequency of extreme storms
Machine learning predicts blackouts caused by storms
Road-building spree in Papua New Guinea threatens environment, communities and economy
Thousands left in the dark during NYC power outage
Retire all existing and planned fossil fuel power plants to limit warming to 1.5°C
Dutch telephone outage takes out nation's emergency number
Crumbling roads, grids cost poor nations billions due to storms: World Bank
Estimating the wear and tear of ice on physical structures over coming decades or even centuries
Cities living with a strong chance of rain
Two-thirds of world's longest rivers throttled by mankind: study

North America driving global oil and gas pipeline 'boom'

China's island cities: Treasure or trouble for Asia?
After cyclone ruin, back to square one for Mozambique's Beira
Researchers uncover hidden deicer risks affecting bridge health
Millions of Australian homes struggling in record-breaking heat
How electric cars could make America's crumbling roads even worse
Green buildings must do more to fix our climate emergency
Preparing for extreme weather
Sinking Greek village highlights nation's addiction to coal
Preventing concrete bridges from falling apart
Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century
'Total disaster' as Italy storms kill at least 30
Emergency declared in typhoon-ravaged Northern Mariana
'Zombie' storm Leslie smashes into Portugal
Storm left wide swath of Florida a communications dead zone
Report - Most dams in Hawaii have 'high hazard potential'
New cities may make millions more vulnerable to climate change
Thousands flee flooding as Myanmar dam bursts
Using artificial intelligence to locate risky dams
Our Future Is (Literally) Crumbling Before Our Eyes

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