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An aerial view of the proposed site at 175 Bloomfield Road in Chatham-Kent, slated for the new anaerobic digestion facility.

Chatham-Kent’s $160 million wastewater recycling plan is back under pressure, and the fight is about cost, waste and trust

June 14, 2026 at 6:00 AM
A municipal snowplow spraying a road with a tinted liquid mixture of brine and beet juice as an alternative to traditional rock salt.

Pickle juice, molasses and beer residue are replacing road salt, turning industrial waste into infrastructure chemistry

June 13, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Map visualization of the proposed bi-oceanic railway corridor connecting Brazil’s Atlantic agricultural hubs to Peru’s Port of Chancay.

A China-backed bi-oceanic railway could link the Atlantic and Pacific, and South America’s cargo map may change

June 10, 2026 at 6:00 AM
An aerial view of the Pinglu Canal's navigation hubs during the final water-filling phase in Guangxi, China.

China is cutting a 134-kilometer canal toward the sea, and the shortcut could redraw how cargo leaves its inland factories

June 8, 2026 at 6:45 PM
XPeng AeroHT Land Aircraft Carrier modular vehicle showing the detachable eVTOL aircraft module atop the ground transport carrier.

China is set to start delivering XPeng AeroHT’s hybrid “Land Aircraft Carrier” in 2027, a modular eVTOL with thousands of orders, as the flying car is shifting from prototype to calendar 

June 4, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Aerial view of the Solaseado golf course layout, now being considered for large-scale solar energy conversion in South Korea.

A golf course worth “200 billion” ended up covered in solar panels to generate energy, but the clock is ticking toward 2030, and that could turn a brilliant fix into a problem that’s nearly impossible to undo 

June 3, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Massive concrete caissons being installed to form the seawall of the Tuas Port expansion in Singapore.

Singapore is sinking 448 concrete giants into the sea, and the prize is a fully automated port bigger than 3,000 football fields

June 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A 3D-printed turbine component used for retrofitting existing non-powered dams with efficient hydropower systems.

Thousands of U.S. dams have been sitting useless for electricity, and a 3D-printed turbine could turn concrete into power

June 2, 2026 at 9:30 AM
The 42-meter MARMOK-A-5 wave energy converter floating in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Bizkaia, Spain.

Spain threw a 42-meter buoy into the sea to make electricity, and the waves are now doing the job of a power plant

June 1, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Construction progress of the Cinturão das Águas do Ceará artificial river canal system traversing dry landscape in Brazil.

Brazil is building a 145-kilometer artificial river through Ceará, and the project could change how one of its driest regions survives drought

May 31, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Aerial view of the massive land reclamation progress for the Dalian Jinzhouwan International Airport in China.

China is building a 20-square-kilometer airport on an artificial island, and Dalian could turn the sea into its next aviation hub

May 30, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Rolling farmland in Mason County, Kentucky, the site of a contentious battle between local farmers and hyperscale data center developers.

A Kentucky mother and daughter rejected $26 million from a data center buyer, and their reason turns farmland into a bigger warning

May 30, 2026 at 6:00 AM
A humanoid robot attempting to pick tea leaves on a steep hillside in Fuding, Fujian Province.

China put humanoid robots in the tea mountains, and the strangest part was not what they harvested but where they failed

May 28, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Steel framework installation at the Serbia National Football Stadium, showcasing the future structure of the suspended garden facade.

A stadium with 52,000 seats and floating gardens is rising in Europe, and China’s role makes the project bigger than sports

May 27, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe addressing the media regarding the company’s new strategic focus on hybrid vehicle development.

Honda posted its first annual profit decline since going public, and the story pins the slide on weaker EV momentum and shifting demand, a warning that even legacy giants can’t coast through the transition

May 26, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Vertical bifacial solar panels installed on a floating platform at the Jais gravel pit lake in Bavaria.

A floating solar plant with 2,500 vertical bifacial panels and 1.87 MW capacity is generating more power in the morning and evening, the exact windows when households and factories spike demand, reducing the battery problem by changing panel geometry

May 25, 2026 at 7:45 AM
A close-up of Evan Budz’s bionic robotic turtle, BURT, showing the front propulsion flippers and acrylic body housing the AI sensor suite.

A high-schooler built BURT, a bionic “robot turtle” that follows autonomous search patterns and flags replicated coral bleaching with 96% accuracy, letting it monitor fragile waters without the noise and turbulence of propeller drones

May 24, 2026 at 10:35 AM
A timelapse view of a 26-story residential tower in China being assembled by stacking pre-fabricated stainless-steel modules via crane.

While towers in London or New York can take years, a 26-story residential building in China went up in five days with about 100 workers by stacking factory-built modules, a proof point for a modular market already pegged around $95 billion annually

May 24, 2026 at 9:30 AM
A visual representation of the MYRRHA accelerator-driven research reactor facility currently under construction in Mol, Belgium.

A billion-euro nuclear reactor driven by a particle accelerator is frozen, and a government decision could decide its fate

May 23, 2026 at 6:45 PM
A technical rendering of the proposed Strait of Gibraltar rail tunnel connecting the Spanish terminal in Vejer de la Frontera to Morocco.

A tunnel between Europe and Africa is moving closer, and the 65-kilometer plan could turn ferries into the old way to cross

May 22, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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