We Get the Point (and the Nonpoint)!
With respect to environmental awareness and protection, there exists Point-Source Pollution and Nonpoint-Source Pollution. The former refers to pollutants entering the environment directly from easily identifiable sources, such as smokestacks, pipes, or even a...
One Way the Netherlands Is Adapting To Global Climate Change
The effects of global climate change are happening sooner than many scientists anticipated. This has resulted in architects & engineers around the world coming up with innovative solutions to help society manage a changing landscape. One such example is located...
Help Make Every Day Earth Day!
The modern environmental movement began on April 22, 1970 thanks to the efforts of a Wisconsin senator named Gaylord Nelson. For on that day, Sen. Nelson proposed that Americans throughout the country be given a voice to speak out against the seemingly unchecked...
Chernobyl Remembered
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located in the former Soviet Union (modern day Ukraine), was among the largest nuclear power plants in the world - until the middle of the night on April 25, 1986. That was when unauthorized tests conducted on the fourth reactor...
Building Earthquake-Resistant Structures
The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the labored works of man in a moment overthrown, we...
