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

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 ...

Fort Collins, Colo. — The clock is ticking for Georgia. She’s got about a week to live, and she needs to find a mate. How will she know when she’s found Mr. Right? By his flashing light. That’s ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

At the end of last week, firefighters were making progress to contain the largest wildfires burning in Southern California as winds were calmer, but the forecast this week is for more Santa Ana winds ...

Niobrara, Neb.— Ruth Janak regularly walks along the Missouri River’s edge in the small town of Niobrara, Nebraska, where she lives. She’ll pan the landscape—hoping to find any remnant of the ...

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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 ...