It’s ugly, dangerous and destructive. In its time, it was heralded as one of history’s great inventions. In the 1870s, barbed wire fencing was advertised as “The Greatest Discovery of the Age.” Joseph ...

Behold the humble barbed-wire fence, the five-strand sentinel of Texas woods and plains. Untold thousands of miles of barbed-wire fence divide the state, so ubiquitous outside the city centers that ...

A vast enclosure around Mount Tai, one of China's most famous mountains and a UNESCO World Heritage site, is sparking heated ...

When conservation photographer Doug Gimesy moved to his property in the Otways in south-west Victoria last year, he saw something distressing — an eastern grey kangaroo tangled in a stretch of barbed ...