La Plata County commissioners warn that proposed statewide building and landscape regulations designed to protect ...

A massive fire broke out at a landfill in India's western Nagpur city on Saturday (April 19), blanketing the area with thick ...

Traditional wood-frame construction has long been the standard in residential building, although this presents a major ...

Living in California, the possibility of catastrophic fire is never too far from many residents' minds. But what if there was ...

From the Japanese cypress to the ponderosa pine, wood has been used in construction for millennia. Though materials like ...

LIDL is selling a fire pit that’s perfect for the garden – and it’s 60 per cent cheaper than rival versions. As summer ...

Metal roofs, manufactured with materials like aluminum, steel, copper, or zinc, have become more popular in recent years and ...

As the fires burned in Los Angeles, scientists and local air regulators deployed monitors to measure the levels of heavy ...

This coating, also made of a plastic polymer ... Some need to be very good (electrical) insulators or they may need to be ...

Not long after the Palisades Fire broke out Jan. 7, firefighting aircraft began drawing bright red lines with fire retardant across the Santa Monica Mountains, in an effort to slow and contain the ...

The use of fire retardants is a “critical” component ... leaving behind a toxic stew of materials from lead paint in older homes, wiring, batteries and other hazardous substances.