A quarter of a century since the material was banned, asbestos-related diseases remain the greatest cause of work-related ...

Walls with asbestos will need professional removal to ... and more affordable option than replacing whole drywall sheets, which would require additional labor costs. To apply a skim coat, start ...

"We were really on this mission to try to find a material that was truly regenerative." Architects swear by natural material ...

Some have fled the threat of future floods. Some have returned to rebuilt homes. And others are still waiting.

Low-income favelas would benefit from green roofs but there are two problems: Cost. And a typical design that's too heavy for ...

As the flames approached his house and studio, Robert J. Lang had time to rescue only one piece of art work: a cuckoo clock ...

The rooms, made of asbestos walls and sprayed with DDT ... overtime until 8pm but could go off at 5pm unofficially once they finished the task. The time sheets were kept open, of course, lest the ...

The fires have turned some electric car batteries and household items into "unexploded ordnances," says an EPA official ...

Efforts to convert an old fire station in the town of Glenville into a video game studio remain ongoing, with the developer behind the project hoping to move his company into the revamped space later ...

Homeowner David Marquez, left, holds a metal detector as his father, Juan Pablo Alvarado, right, and a friend look for the remains of gold jewelry and other silver items inside the walls of their ...

She decided to present this physical record of mental anguish as a work of art titled “My Bed” (1998), complete with the actual bed, used tissues, vodka bottles, stained sheets, condoms ...