Long before desalination plants became common and climate change intensified concerns regarding water security, one California oceanographer proposed an idea that sounded more like science fiction than engineering. In the mid-1950s, Dr John D.

In the autumn of 1977, visitors arriving in Ames, Iowa, encountered something they would never have expected to see in the American Midwest: a massive iceberg sitting inside a…

In 1977, Iowa State University hosted a conference on towing icebergs. A large iceberg was transported from Alaska to demonstrate the concept. Scientists and leaders debated the…