The Canal's strategic importance is undisputed. It allows for the rapid deployment of the U.S. Navy from one ocean to another, drastically reducing travel time and bolstering America's ability to ...

Reflections on the Erie Canal is available to stream on pbs.org ... There was no civil engineering school in America at the time. - There was West Point, there was Norwich Academy, but those ...

In the canals of Abbot Kinney's Venice of America that are now disguised as residential streets, the developer made several references to the city's Italian namesake, including Italianate ...

No, we need to invest significant national effort in the creation of a cross-country transit canal. Boats are the answer. they should build a big river across America so you can go across it by boat.

California is spending $20 million on “Project Nexus.” The project involves covering sections of open water canals in California’s Stanislaus County with solar panels. Researchers will test ...

The canals then were an integral part of the community ... The driest urban environment in North America opted to ignore the only "rivers" it had. Unsurprisingly, by 2006, overnight "urban ...

The first solar-covered canal in America is set to be completed within a couple of years. Arizona is getting the pioneering renewable project after a historic agreement between leaders of the Gila ...

In the 1960s, the powers-that-be decided that Panama Canal wasn’t enough. There was simply too much land still in the way, and it would be rather useful if, somewhere along Central America ...

A long-awaited dredging of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, a Superfund site, has begun in earnest. It may not be finished for at least a decade. By Mihir Zaveri In the middle of the Gowanus Canal ...

WASHINGTON — Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s ... old network of earthen canals in what’s now Belize.