Barbed wire changed what the Homestead Act could not. Until it was developed, the prairie was an unbounded space, more like an ocean than a stretch of arable land. Private ownership of land wasn't ...

The barbed wire placed in Cyprus’ buffer zone near the villages of Akaki, Peristerona, and Astromeritis to kerb migrant flows ...

Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches, dug-outs and barbed-wire fences moved very little between 1914-1918, despite attempts on both sides to break through.

The Heiltsuk of British Columbia are using a mix of traditional principles and modern implementation to protect salmon and ...

William Harrison, 37, bought the 88,000-acre expanse of land, named the Cielo Vista Ranch, stretching through ...

Christopher Brown, a lawyer and author who built a home on an abandoned industrial site, offers readers an expertly guided ...

Martín’s case is just one example of how the search and rescue system in the borderlands often fails migrants caught up in ...

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The remains of an abandoned church stand behind a barbed-wire fence in Malaysia ... levels ...

I want to get out there in the environment and help out. It’s something I really care about,' says Patrick Jones, a youth ...

Non-English-speaking immigrants detained in Louisiana are being denied access to translation and interpretation services, ...

Kennedy’s addition to the New York ballot was initially challenged on the grounds that he used an invalid address. During his ...

Residents of Siesta Key take stock of flooded homes and businesses just hours after up to seven feet of storm surge washed ...