WASHINGTON — When you think of the Smithsonian Castle, you might imagine hidden chambers filled with priceless treasures or ancient secrets waiting to be uncovered. But what if I told you that the ...

It is useful to be able to visualize what funding retirement is all about. Rows and columns of numbers on a spreadsheet are a great tool, but sometimes a picture is worth a thousand columns. This ...

In Western Pennsylvania, coal mining has rendered surface and groundwater supplies unfit, causing rural residents to try to catch rainwater. Rainwater catchment systems are ancient inventions that are ...

On a cloudy afternoon, UA students, faculty and staff members gathered to celebrate the new water-harvesting cistern in the UA Community Garden. The cistern, a result of three years of planning and ...

HOUSTON — Houston is full of hidden treasures and one of them sits more than 200 feet below Buffalo Bayou Park near downtown. The Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, reminiscent of the ancient Roman cisterns ...

Some of the best new ideas are old ones. Take the cistern. Basically, it's a man-made receptacle for harvesting rainwater. It's an emerging "green" building trend, but hardly new technology; the ...