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BusinessWeek
June 9, 2011
Peter Heller |
The Mississippi River Flood and the Katrina Risk New Orleans and Baton Rouge are one breached levee away from Katrina-like devastation. Can the Army Corps of Engineers save them?   |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2006
Traci Purdum |
Port of New Orleans: Returning To Shipshape The Port of New Orleans expects full recovery from hurricane damage. |
Geotimes
August 2007
Megan Sever |
Restoring the River Since Katrina struck, one thing has become clear, researchers say: Restoration of the natural system is of paramount importance to saving New Orleans in the long run, and the time to act is now. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2010
Carl Hoffman |
On Board the World's Most Powerful Tugboat As ships get bigger, towing companies build more powerful and agile tugboats to guide the shipping behemoths in and out of port. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Donald C. Swanson |
Don't Try to Fool Mother Nature Protecting and maintaining a city on a delta is confronting the dynamics of sediment and water responding to gravity, a basic force in the universe. Gravity-driven phenomena dominate the delta environment and are major guns in Mother Nature's arsenal. |
America's Civil War
Donald L. Barnhart Jr. |
Admiral Porter's Ironclad Hoax After a botched Union naval effort on the Mississippi River, Rear Admiral David D. Porter resorted to trickery to prevent one of his captured ironclads from being used by the Confederates. |
Fast Company
May 2004
Fiona Haley |
A Day in the Life of Work: Wave Runner A former lawyer found her true calling as a harbor pilot, steering 1,000-foot tanker ships through Portland's waterways. |
Geotimes
May 2004
Swarzenski & Campbell |
Tracking Contaminants Down the Mississippi The U.S. Geological Survey is working with scientists from various universities and state agencies to investigate the historic downstream delivery of sediment-associated contaminants into the Gulf of Mexico. |
Geotimes
September 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Water Covers New Orleans As Hurricane Katrina dissipated on its way toward the northeastern United States on Tuesday, the threat only grew for this and other Gulf towns. Monday afternoon's seeming reprieve in New Orleans evaporated as two breached levees flooded the city. |
Vietnam
August 24, 2004
G.W. Frederickson |
Mined in the Mekong Delta When VC frogmen struck USS Westchester County, they inflicted the Navy's greatest single-incident combat loss of the war. |
Smithsonian
September 2007
Whitney Dangerfield |
Snapshot: Yangtze River A virtual vacation along China's mighty waterway. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2008
Erik Sofge |
Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix U.S. Infrastructure American infrastructure is in trouble, from collapsed bridges to leaking dams. Here are some fresh ideas, smart engineering and new technology that can be used to fix it. |
Science News
February 17, 2007 |
Timeline: From the February 13, 1937, Issue Great Model Shows Engineers How to Prepare for Floods... Robot Mathematician Solves Nine Simultaneous Equations... |
Popular Mechanics
March 2006 |
Now What? The lessons of Katrina |
Popular Mechanics
September 2008
Erik Sofge |
Thinking Beyond Levees, Experts Turn to New Flood Software Three-dimensional maps incorporating up to date topographic and climate data can better predict regions prone to flooding. |
Geotimes
August 2006
Megan Sever |
When Levees Fail Many of the levees in the United States were built more than a century ago to protect farmland, and have been negligibly, if at all, maintained. For New Orleans, such a lesson came too late, but the city can still plan for the future. |
World War II
Donald J. Young |
West Coast War Zone For a week in December 1941, Japanese submarines prowled the U.S. Pacific coastline, searching for merchant ships to sink. |
Geotimes
November 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Louisiana's Marshland Mess Even before the past season's devastating hurricanes, Louisiana's wetlands were in rough shape. More than a century of building dams, levees and canals to control the Mississippi River changed the wetlands, limiting sediment and leading to soil compaction from the loss of vegetation. |
Outside
March 2007 |
Biking New Orleans, Louisiana Do not bike along the muddy Mississippi levee near New Orleans for clean air or beautiful vistas. Bike the 120 miles for the memories it invokes. |
Outside
February 2002
William T. Vollmann |
Where the Ghost Bird Sings by the Poison Springs What's that smell? It's a teeming avian sanctuary� and a sump of troubled waters. It's a mess that we created� and a puzzle we can't solve. It's California's Salton Sea, a hypersaline lake that kills the very life it shelters... |
Wired
June 2002
Richard Martin |
The New Supertanker Plague Blame it on super-rust, a virulent form of corrosion that has destroyed hundreds of ships and could sink the oil industry... |
Smithsonian
March 2007
Sam Hooper Samuels |
Curtains for the Pallid Sturgeon Can biologists breed the "Dinosaurs of the Missouri" fast enough to stave off their extinction? |
Scientific American
October 24, 2005
Mark Fischetti |
Flood Control Protecting against the Next Katrina: Wetlands mitigate flooding, but are they too damaged in the gulf? |
Outside
August 2002
John Galvin |
Dude Over Troubled Water The strangest stuff litters the flood-sloshed banks of the Mississippi River and her tributaries. When the going gets gross, the man to call is Chad Pregracke, a crusading voyager in the war against trash. |
Mother Jones
December 2000
Bill Donahue |
The Same River Twice It's been a horror movie set, a sewer, a flood control ditch. Now environmentalists, and some politicians, are pushing a novel idea: They want to turn the Los Angeles River into... a river... |
High on Adventure
April 2007
Lee Juillerat |
Traveling the Rogue From the Cascades to the Ocean The Rogue River is a magical river in Southern Oregon's Cascades. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2006
Susan Tweit |
Can't We Just Blow It Up? The world's biggest dam removal will return Washington's Elwha River to its free-flowing state. But the colossal three-year project proves there's a lot more to deconstruction than tons of TNT. |
Military History Quarterly
Thomas Fleming |
Old Hickory's Finest Hour In January 1815, General Andrew Jackson led a menagerie of American defenders against some of the British Empire's finest soldiers in a battle that would determine the future of America. |
Popular Mechanics
June 19, 2008
Emily Gertz |
As Flood Waters Rise, Geeks Aim to Save Midwest With 3D Rig Digital models of possible flood outcomes might just help prevent developers from building in the most vulnerable spots around the country's biggest and most dangerous river. |
Outside
April 2009
Wells Tower |
The Tuber Having constructed the greatest flotation device mankind has ever known, the author embarks on an ill-conceived, possibly insane crossing of alligator-infested north Florida. |
National Defense
December 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Marines to Build Mock Container Ship for Counter-Piracy Training The Marine Corps is planning to build a three-story mock container ship on a plot of land at Camp Lejeune, N.C., so special operators can practice clearing out pirates from hijacked vessels. |
Wired
January 2002
Jeff Howe |
The Next Wave Taller, sleeker, and much, much faster, it was the finest invention ever to issue from America's shores. Welcome to the "new economy" of the clipper ship... |
Real Travel Adventures
February 2007
Linda Ballou |
Slow Blowing Dream Coming home to Alaska's unrivaled beauty |
Adventure
March 2004
John Annerino |
Riding the Wild Colorado Strategies for taking America's ultimate river trip. |
Fast Company
December 1999
Heath Row |
Road Rules - Rule 15 Live out of the box. |
Real Travel Adventures
March 2006
Larry Taylor |
River Cruise Vienna to Amsterdam What lay are ahead-spectacular views of fairytale castles nestled in the hills above the narrow river gorge. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2008
Jeff Wise |
Building the World's Biggest Ship: Behind-the-Scenes First Look How do you construct the most massive boat ever? One piece at a time. Read about the world's next generation of mega cruise liners taking shape in a Finnish shipyard. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2003
Ross Purnell |
Fly Fishing the Roaring Fork What you need to know about a fly fishing vacation in one of the American West's most fertile rivers. |
