This story from The Conversation is by Stephen P. Leatherman, Professor of Coastal Science at Florida International University. While millions of Americans vacation on beaches every year to seek out ...

The building of the Channel Tunnel, one of the engineering wonders of modern times. Shows the planning, construction, completion and aftermath. In particular it shows the problems that had to be ...

Eurotunnel, also known as the Channel Tunnel, or Chunnel, is the largest privately financed transportation project in world history. When the Channel Tunnel became operational in May 1994, it was ...

Over a thousand British tunnellers operated eleven massive tunnel boring machines, digging not one tunnel but three: two rail tunnels and a service tunnel. Workers smuggled in alcohol and cigarettes ...

SEDRUN, Switzerland -- Workers hugged, cheered and set off fireworks as the huge drill broke through the last stretch of rock deep in the Swiss Alps. There was delight at the end of the tunnel -- the ...

(Reuters) - The Paris Commercial court on Monday approved a debt-reduction plan for Eurotunnel , paving the way for a fresh start for the company and a share swap for battered equity investors. Here ...

The shield is actually a sharp-edged cylinder that cuts through the earth, squeezing the earth in at the shield's face. Tunnel workers gather the muck and dirt as it pours in. They toss the dirt on ...

Double-decker trains could soon run between London and Paris. Alstom – the world’s second-largest train manufacturer and creator of the world’s only high-speed double-decker train – confirmed to The ...