"HEARTBROKEN" residents have told how their once thriving mining village is now a "barren wasteland" where everyone is on benefits. The closure of the pit has seen seen shops close down and the ...

For decades, the Colorado River Delta was a shadow of its former self—a barren, cracked landscape ... the once-mighty river had been reduced to a dry wasteland. But against the odds, something ...

Signed into law by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Flood Control Act of 1938 authorized dams, levees and other flood ...