There have been questions raised about whether cuts to the National Weather Service (NWS) by the Trump Administration ...

Every time there’s an online outage or streaming service starts to buffer, there’s an impulse to blame a hacker...or “the cloud.” After all, web traffic is handled by satellites, right? Wrong.

HANNA, Wyo.—For decades, TV and movie Westerns have depicted cowboys driving cattle through sagebrush country—a territory portrayed as inhospitable and dotted with low-growing, grey-green shrubs as ...

The construction of dams on rivers worldwide has stopped the natural flow of sand and silt to the sea—resulting in coastal wetland loss and disappearing beaches—as well as preventing fish from ...

In 1860, when Colorado was still a territory and the gold rush was on, farmers who settled on the eastern plains were looking for another source of wealth—water. The state’s prairie is mostly without ...

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In 1948, a World War II-era bomber crashed into Lake Mead, the massive reservoir formed by Hoover Dam that straddles the Arizona-Nevada border. After several failed attempts to locate the plane, it ...

When Paul Thompson was a child growing up outside Houston in the early 1980s, severe weather and hurricanes frightened him—especially nighttime storms with the bright flashes and loud booms of ...

Last week, Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, picked Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota to be her running mate. Walz has wide support, receiving endorsements by democratic ...

World leaders, politicians, and titans of industry gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week to discuss global issues, including this year’s focus—the war in Ukraine, ...