What do you get when you mix seawater with recycled soda cans and coffee? According to researchers at MIT, you get green ...

Lakewood, Colorado—Looking for your next read? How about a mystery that delves into a past that perhaps no one has ever heard before. There’s a library that holds those stories—stories of how our ...

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.

Ventura, Calif.—It’s a flawless sunny day in Ventura, California. In the coastal city, north of Los Angeles, surfers bob on boards watching the swells for the ideal wave. If you want a long ride, here ...

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 ...

Officials, farmers, and others who depend on the Colorado River received a grim prediction last week that Lake Powell, the second largest reservoir in the basin, will receive less than half of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yet, these areas, hard hit by climate-change fueled disasters, have been attracting new residents. The metro area around Tampa and St. Petersburg has grown by almost 40 percent since 2000, adding one ...

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 ...