U.S.-based NGO Water for People is helping lead the charge in this area with the development of a new system called FLOW (Field Level Operations Watch).

CNN: Going with the 'FLOW' towards better sanitation

First oil is expected to flow from the field in late 2014.

BBC: Aberdeen firm Wood Group secures $50m North Sea deal

Being so far north, much of region - some 146, 000 square km - is covered by glaciers and ice caps (a type of ice field where glaciers flow off in many directions).

BBC: Canadian glaciers face 'big losses'

When something that conducts electricity sweeps through a magnetic field, a current starts to flow through it (this is the basis of a dynamo).

ECONOMIST: Here be serpents

We're talking about the loss here, by the way, of 400, 000 barrels of oil every day while the flow is shut down in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay oil field.

NPR: Marketplace Report: Prudhoe Pipeline Shutdown

That leads us to opportunistic deal flow, which caught fire in the third quarter as issuers rushed the field to print loans to finance dividends, cut spreads via repricings, or extend maturities.

FORBES: Connect

Ebb and Flow deliberately plunged into a lunar mountain in December after mapping the moon's gravity field in unprecedented detail.

NPR: NASA Moon Craft Spots Ebb And Flow Crash Sites

The Sun's changeable magnetic field is generated at the boundary between these two layers, where strong electric currents flow.

BBC: Sun, Trace

If enacted, the Grassley bill will encourage companies to place more engineers and other skilled foreign nationals abroad, where more investment dollars will flow, which will not be good for U.S.-born professionals in the technology field.

FORBES: Requiring Foreigners to Be Paid More Than Americans