The first stages of a giant concrete plug were poured Friday in a final bid to stop an underground flood from the Chicago River that ultimately may cause more than $1-billion in damage. Five days into ...

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Engineers dumped concrete into a massive sinkhole that opened up on a road in Bangkok. Cement trucks were dispatched today to pour concrete into the gaping chasm at the botched underground train line ...

Researchers have developed a type of concrete that uses discarded shells. It’s now combating floods and food waste in urban gardens and along cycling paths. This time of year, bushels of rhubarb, ...

TOKYO — The operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant said yesterday that highly radioactive water was leaking from a pit near a reactor into the ocean, which may partially explain the ...