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Edina reviews $20m pedestrian tunnel across France Avenue near Centennial Lakes

The City of Edina is evaluating a new pedestrian and bicycle crossing beneath France Avenue, a six-lane corridor that carries more than 27,000 vehicles per day. The proposed route would connect neigh...

Arkansas allocates over $153 million for water and wastewater projects

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced more than $153 million in water and wastewater funding to support improvements to waterlines, sewer systems and septic programs. The funding will assist 52 e...

Loose wire fault identified as root cause of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse

A detailed investigation has confirmed that a loose electrical wire aboard the container vessel involved in the 2024 Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster initiated the sequence of failures that led to t...

New Zealand and Iceland sign geothermal cooperation agreement at COP 30

New Zealand and Iceland signed a Memorandum of Arrangement on 20 November 2025 to deepen cooperation on geothermal energy development. The agreement was signed at COP 30 in Belem, Brazil, by Climate...

EU launches €1 billion industrial heat decarbonization pilot auction

The European Commission is running a European-wide, €1 billion ($1.16 billion) pilot auction to support industrial heat decarbonization. Made available under the EU Innovation Fund, the IF25 Heat Auc...

Francis Scott Key Bridge reconstruction costs climb to $5.2 billion as reopening shifts to 2030

Reconstruction efforts for the Francis Scott Key Bridge have entered a significantly more complex phase as updated assessments place total replacement costs between 4.3 and 5.2 billion dollars. Revis...

Sardinia restricts Lake Maccheronis water use to livestock as irrigation is halted

Sardinia is again confronting drought conditions, and the Central Sardinia Land Reclamation Consortium has halted irrigation in the Maccheronis basin district, allowing withdrawals only for livestock...

Project InnerSpace launches geomap europe geothermal mapping platform

On November 19, 2025, in Boston, Project InnerSpace announced the launch of GeoMap Europe, a continent-wide geothermal mapping and prospecting platform that consolidates decades of subsurface data to...

UCI and NASA JPL link Antarctic ice loss to short-term ocean features

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory report that stormlike circulation patterns beneath Antarctic ice shelves are driving aggressive melting, with...

Reliability frameworks for large-scale solar pile foundations

The rapid growth of utility-scale solar installations in the United States has elevated the importance of structural reliability for foundation systems. In 2023, approximately fifteen million steel p...

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