The plain upon which Abu Shouk camp sits was already a dry place before tens of thousands of people forced from their homes in Darfur flocked there for safety. But the recent shortage of water on that ...

Sedimentary beds of clay and quartz mud can form mudstone. Geological pressure compresses this into shale, a soft, friable ...

To stay cool during the warm weekend, children took a turn rolling around in the mud — and the history — during the annual Mud Mania: A Celebration of Adobe at Long Beach’s Rancho Los Cerritos ...

I enjoyed Patrick Bingham-Hall’s article on architecture for sustainability and climate change in the tropics (“Club Tropicana”, House and Home, August 23). But was alarmed to read of building blocks ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (KTXL) — Recent catastrophic wildfires have ...

Beneath the arms of aged trees outside of the Gutiérrez-Hubbell House in Albuquerque’s South Valley on Tuesday, men and women in broad-brimmed hats knelt and pressed a clay, sand and straw mixture ...