Water can help keep solar panels cooler, which may improve performance.

The Freedom Ship, a proposed self-contained ocean metropolis, and other similar concepts have yet to become a reality.

The United Nations — The corridors and meeting rooms here bustled this week with a familiar-sounding mix of sessions, on “policy options for low fertility,” the launch of “The State of Pacific Youth ...

These floating solar panels installed above bodies of water could help Australia with its drought problem in addition to ...

Countries like Kiribati, a nation of low-lying coral atolls in the Pacific, will likely disappear entirely. This is why Kiribati is among the countries to have explored the possibility of artificial ...

Permanent floating bridges are essentially boutique structures that only make sense for certain rare kinds of sites: unusually deep bodies of water and bodies of water with very soft bottoms, where ...

A view from the eastern side of Lake Washington, looking back beneath the new, right, and old SR 520 floating bridges. (Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire) One of the more important aspects of a floating ...