The Los Angeles fire disaster and the many fires we regularly experience in South Africa are a powerful reminder of the need for fire-resistant building materials and methods across the housing ...

By replacing fossil-fuel-driven calcination with electric heating, the ECem project aims to revolutionize cement production, reducing CO2 emissions while improving efficiency. The cement industry is ...

Extreme weather events and human-made crises are becoming more frequent, highlighting the need for resilience in the built ...

PACIFIC PALISADES - With the Palisades and Eaton Fires now under containment, one tool used to fight the flames will remain in the headlines: fire retardant. Questions about its use and environmental ...

The cost of Rhode Island's pallet home project to shelter the homeless has ballooned by nearly 40%, the NBC10 I-Team has ...

Dr. Melissa Webby of the University of Warwick has received a £2.2 million Wellcome Career Development Award to research the mechanisms that pro ...

Single-digit lows forecast for the next 2 nights. Tips on staying warm and how to identify cold related illness.

The eye-popping substance coating streets, cars and surfaces is actually fire retardant, dropped by aerial firefighting tankers in massive plumes of red or pink. Unlike water drops, which target ...

The substance, vivid against the grey smoke and charred landscape, is fire retardant – much of it a product called Phos-Chek that has been used by the US Forest Service since the 1960s.

including planting fire-resistant vegetation and keeping any other trees and shrubs trimmed and away from houses. But housing demand is so high in cities like Los Angeles that developers often end ...

Phos-Chek, the pink fire retardant that firefighters are dropping on LA County, is actually reasonably safe for cars. It’s noncorrosive, it washes off with regular soap and water, and even that ...

Owners cleared brush away from their stucco house that has a fire-resistant roof and multi-pane windows that blocked the flames. This house in Paradise was the first home to receive the Wildfire ...