Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. There are more than 700 steel knots in The “Bobbed Wire” Bible ...

In the mid 1800s, not many (non-native) Americans had ever been west of the Mississippi. When Frederick Law Olmstead visited the west in the 1850s, he remarked that the plains looked like a sea of ...

The conspicuous presence of barbed wire in Australian immigration detention centres, such as Rudd’s newly re-opened Curtin detention centre, is a reminder of the inhuman pedigree of these grim despair ...

American troops without much to do are on the U.S.-Mexico border stringing concertina wire, a type of barbed wire manufactured in coils and often used to create an obstacle in war, to stop a caravan ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The United States has been fortifying its southern border against the “caravan” of migrants from Central American nations ...

Earlier this month, the Hungarian government, scrambling to seal its southern border against the influx of North African and Middle Eastern refugees trying to reach Germany, placed a bid for 10,000 ...

Ms. Nijhuis is the author of “Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction.” She reported from Brewster, Wash. Sept. 26, 2023 “Wherever a farm may be located, or whatever may be its ...

After October’s Blue Ridge Fire devastated 13,694 acres in northern Orange County and into Chino Hills, another environmental hazard was revealed in the aftermath. After the fires were contained and ...