Once lost in the mists of time, the colonial hydrology of the northeastern United States has been reconstructed by a team of geoscientists, biological scientists and social scientists. The results,
ITT Corp. has announced the results of its “Value of Water Survey,” a nationwide poll that included registered voters and industrial and agricultural businesses, and measures how people value water
Walgreens has opened the nation’s first drugstore chain location that utilizes geothermal energy for heating and cooling. The location, in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Ill., is expected to
Researchers perform sediment coring operations on a lake in East Greenland. The work is part of a project carried out to reconstruct the paleoclimate and glaciation history of Greenland.
Moretrench has announced that Houston-based dewatering contractor, TerraFirma, has joined its growing network of regional offices. TerraFirma has served the dewatering and ground water control needs of the southwestern and
Fugro has acquired ERT (Scotland) Ltd., marine environmental consultants based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. The company employs around 25 people, and has been providing services to the global oil and
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimates 896 million barrels of conventional, undiscovered oil and 53 trillion cubic feet of conventional, undiscovered non-associated gas within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska
The pace and extent of Marcellus Shale development across Pennsylvania can be "seen" in animated maps produced by the Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research. Based on data
The numerous technical and operational breakdowns that contributed to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and spill from the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico suggest the lack of
Ray Roussy, a mechanical engineer from Surrey, British Columbia, took home a coveted $10,000 Innovation Award from the Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation for developing one of the fastest drilling