The hidden engineering of landfills
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CrowdStrike estimates the tech meltdown caused by its bungling left a $60 million dent in its sales
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US lawsuits against Crowdstrike begin with Delta Airlines and Crowdstrike shareholders filing suit
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California hits new milestone with EV chargers: 40% increase in one year
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Over the last ten years Finland reduced road deaths by a sizable 29% – the average decline in the European Union was 16%
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As California dam removal wraps up, river flows for first time in century
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US judge rules $400 million algorithmic system illegally denied thousands of people’s Medicaid benefits
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Finland is building the world's largest heat pump – will provide enough heat for 30,000 homes, saving roughly 26,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year
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Three Danish energy tech firms have opened the doors to the first ever green ammonia plant in the world, capable of producing 5,000 tons per year
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The tactile road crossing map is not just a feature that sets Swedish pedestrian signal boxes apart, it's also the first and original design of its kind
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‘I have lost everything’: Bangladesh floods strand 1.24 million families. Bangladeshis claim Indian dam water release made it more severe.
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Chinese government hackers penetrate US internet providers to spy
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A dam collapses in eastern Sudan after heavy rainfall and local media report dozens missing
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Fehmarn Belt tunnel being built with innovative engineering is final step of project to connect Denmark – and the Nordics as a whole – to the rest of Europe
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Microsoft to host security summit after CrowdStrike disaster
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The can opener. Engineering to solve human fallibility. (Spoiler: It didn’t totally work.)
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The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
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How French drains work
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Form Energy to build world’s largest battery energy storage system in Maine
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A drunken evening, a rented yacht: the real story of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
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Californian police can’t stop sideshows. Solution: Make the streets more annoying.
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No-car Games: Los Angeles Olympic venues will only be accessible by public transportation
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Léna Lazare is the new face of climate activism—and she's carrying a pickax
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Sweden has cut 80% of its net emissions since 1990 – while growing its economy twofold. How have they done it?
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Forest Service orders Arrowhead bottled water company to shut down California pipeline
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First officially approved Gen IV nuclear reactor in the US breaks ground
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What adults lost when kids stopped playing in the street
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Airlines are running out of flight numbers, and they don’t know what to do about it
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Cambodia PM launches project linking Mekong River to sea via canal
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Anger mounts over environmental cost of Google datacentre in Uruguay
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Generative AI requires massive amounts of power and water, and the aging US grid can't handle the load
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Delta cancels more flights as it struggles to recover from tech outage
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Citing climate change, a federal court in Brazil halts rainforest highway paving
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FrostyGoop malware attack cut off heat in Ukraine during winter
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Firefighters in Canada battle to save Jasper's buildings, infrastructure as wildfire engulfs town
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Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined
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How to build an Arctic airport – why airport construction in Greenland is (quite literally) booming
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Maximum-severity Cisco vulnerability allows attackers to change admin passwords
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A celebrated bike path might revert to being a breakdown lane for cars
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Helsinki's incredibly well executed Jokeri light rail project – finished way ahead of schedule and costs lower than initially budgeted
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He secretly changed this freeway sign, helped millions of drivers
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Is cycling in the suburbs a lost cause?
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Israeli port Eilat in financial distress due to lack of Red Sea freight traffic
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AI boom risk: Can the world's power grid handle the technology's meteoric rise?
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Space data centres: ‘A figment of the imagination’ but one that could make Europe a space leader
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Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines
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Google’s greenhouse gas emissions jump 48% in five years
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How to build an AI data center
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MTA stops work on Second Ave. subway amid congestion pricing confusion in New York City
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Meme weeding: High wages and Baumol’s cost disease
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