As recent flooding in Spain and elsewhere revealed, every minute of warning given to people ahead of a possible flood can save lives and property. A new paper published in the journal Hydrology may ...

In October, the Ohio EPA issued a new draft general National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for ...

Record amounts of salty, chemically laden “produced water” are being drawn to the surface at Permian Basin drilling sites.

These days the Pecos River barely fills its dry, sandy bed where it crosses West Texas, but the river could be poised to flow again — with treated oilfield wastewater. Companies are racing to figure ...

Just after 5 a.m. on August 30, water began flooding a vast underground chamber called the “cathedral” just north of Tokyo. The gushing water, captured by security cameras, was the rain that was ...

Above: The Old River Control Structure on the Mississippi River as seen during a flood on May 17, 2009 (left) and at normal waters levels on December 31, 2009 (right). The May 2009 flood was the 14th ...

The sight of a passenger train or coal train rumbling through the west end of the Moffat Tunnel at Winter Park Resort is a welcome sight for many. Built in 1927 to cut through the Continental Divide, ...