Older coastal cities, like Philadelphia, New York and Boston are at risk of being inundated by untreated sewage during floods. Due in part to the design of their combined sewer systems and in part due ...

It’s a little unsettling that the city of Mankato has decided to contract out its engineering department, something apparently not done in any other city its size. City Manager Susan Arntz recently ...

Global sea levels have not continued to rise at the rates predicted by many scientists — and there is no evidence that climate change has contributed to any such acceleration, a new first-of-its-kind ...

Altering the DNA of living organisms could be an early step in re-engineering the natural world to help curb climate change. By Eric Lipton Science is always focused on breakthroughs and the next big ...