KABUL, Afghanistan – Every day that Dil Agha works at his backbreaking job at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Afghanistan's capital Kabul, from before sunrise to well after sunset, he digs himself ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...