Economy
Australia fixed a beach that wouldn’t stop losing sand by building a “jetty” about 1,600 feet long and burying 10 pumps on the seafloor, and the scale is massive: moving about 654,000 cubic yards of sand a year through a pipeline roughly 4 miles long, and it’s been running since 1986
Saudi Arabia just brought Rabigh 4 online in the Red Sea, producing about 158.5 million gallons a day and storage tanks of roughly 317 million gallons, meaning the country is building water security the hard way: industrial-scale desalination
Denmark has started sinking 89 mega concrete blocks that are 712 ft. long and roughly 81,000 tons each into the Baltic Sea to build the world’s longest immersed tunnel, intended to link the country to Germany in a 10-minute drive, and about 7 minutes by train
China turned the sun into an industrial weapon, and the U.S. and Europe are now racing to escape the trap they helped create
Windows that used to waste sunlight could start making electricity, and the roof may no longer be the only place to put solar power
China is ripping Nigeria away from colonial-era tracks, and the 800-mile railway bet could redraw Africa’s largest economy
California gives plastic producers until 2032 to fix packaging, but the new recycling rules have already angered both sides
USPS shut down a Montana post office over safety concerns, and residents now get their mail from storage trailers with no clear reopening date
One of the world’s largest salt mines sits beneath Lake Erie, an underground industrial city that most people living above it never realize exists until they see the depth and scale
Nearly 230 giant concrete boxes as tall as a 10-story building are forming a maritime wall for a fully automated megaport designed to move 65 million containers a year, a scale move that looks like infrastructure and geopolitics at the same time
Japan tests a solar system that gets more power from the same light, and the 130% lab result could break a photovoltaic limit
Only 162 trees remain in the wild, and scientists are racing to save a rare wood once hunted for its beauty and dangerous myths
Australia is covering its fields with sheep wool to fight a farming crisis, and the numbers suggest the strange idea is working
A giant offshore platform is being thrown into the Atlantic to turn ocean temperature differences into electricity, and the test could change clean power
A submarine bullet train will run at more than 250 km/h under the sea, and two key cities are about to feel much closer
The world’s highest hydroelectric plant could power an entire region, but its real test is surviving where engineering reaches the limit
ExxonMobil’s Ionian drilling plan has started a port race in Greece, and one small gateway is chasing a €400 million prize









