With expanding cities, rising housing demand, and large-scale infrastructure projects, India is witnessing one of the world’s fastest construction booms. Under the government’s urban housing scheme, ...

Brick kilns are one of the leading sources of air pollution in Bangladesh emitting carbon dioxide, particulate matter, and other pollutants. The Government of Bangladesh has recognized in its ...

WILLIAMSBURG — With the new year, masons at Colonial Williamsburg stand ready to use traditional 18th-century techniques to lay needed bricks recently created by a brick kiln operation on the edge of ...

Brick manufacturing is a central component of the economy in South Asia, but also a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, as the practice releases carbon dioxide (CO 2), fine ...

Hidden across South Carolina, these historic brick kilns and pottery ruins feel like forgotten time capsules from another ...

ISLAMABAD (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - To combat worsening smog, Pakistan's government has ordered all traditional brick kilns closed for 70 days starting Saturday, as it promotes new cleaner kilns ...