The Anasazi, a once-flourishing tribe in the American Southwest, lived on bounties of corn, squash and beans. In 1276 A.D., ...

Smallholder farmers in West Africa's Sahel face a harsh and worsening climate. Rainfall is erratic, temperatures are rising, ...

Baseball players and trainers are increasingly using emerging technology to advance the game – some of which has been developed in Ontario. Some say they believe it’s part of growing interest in the ...

1 Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Smart Computing in Civil Engineering Research Group, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Ton Duc ...

Desiccation (water loss by drying or freeze-thaw sufficient to generate matric suction), can influence the performance of a tailings deposit both positively and negatively. The significance of ...

Abstract: This paper reports the application of hands-on learning and team-based learning to increase learning and promote deep understanding of key topics in Soil Mechanics. The pedagogical practice ...

Lin moved to Savannah in 1993 to take the job as on-call geotechnical engineer for Georgia Port Authority’s major projects. After a career spanning three decades and more than 3,000 projects, tackling ...

Humans need soil to grow food and survive, but our soil is dying and we only have 60 harvests left to save it, say the many contributors to a new book published in September. Carol McKenna—the book's ...