A worker adds wood chips to the furnace. (Photo: Yang Hui/GT) Braving temperatures of more than 50 degrees in a dome made of mud and bricks, a worker shovels fuel into the scorching furnace. When it ...

Workers loading unbaked bricks into a kiln. Researchers mapped brick kilns across India and used climate models to forecast the levels of heat stress workers face between now and 2050 “I work with ...

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, ...

During the dry winter months in Bangladesh, thousands of workers shovel millions of tons of coal into kilns across the country. As columns of hand-packed bricks bake and harden, dark plumes of smoke ...

The topsoil of vast areas of farmland in the agriculture-based northern districts is being used for manufacturing bricks, causing significant harm to agriculture and the environment. Officials from ...

A handful of inexpensive changes in how Bangladeshi brick kilns are run have cut energy use by nearly a quarter and slashed emissions — a breakthrough that could transform one of South Asia’s most ...

Every building project starts with good bricks. In this video, Primitive Technology builds a kiln, makes a mold so every ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...