Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bricks made from alternative materials are helping Bangladesh meet its infrastructure demands without damaging the topsoil or ...

DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Researchers in Bangladesh are developing new building materials to mitigate the environmental damage caused by brick manufacturing. The country produces 25 billion ...

He spent time with the workers who make low wages and suffer from the fumes in the fields Raffaele Petralla, a documentary photographer based in Rome, was struck by what he witnessed when he first ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh, April 6 (UPI) -- In an effort to reduce greenhouse gases, Bangladesh has adopted smokeless brick-making technology introduced by the U.N. Development Program. The UNDP will ...

Brick kilns are one of the leading sources of air pollution in Bangladesh emitting carbon dioxide, particulate matter, and other pollutants. The Government of Bangladesh has recognized in its ...

Excavators flanked by Bangladesh riot police are at work demolishing illegal soot-belching brick kilns around the smog-choked capital Dhaka, forcing migrant labourers out of work and back to their ...

Brick kilns have long been a significant cause of environmental degradation in Bangladesh, contributing to air pollution, carbon dioxide emissions, and depletion of topsoil on agricultural land.

It’s back-breaking work - dusty, dangerous and poorly paid - but the million Bangladeshis who make, bake and stack clay bricks fear their jobs will soon go in the name of saving the planet. And they ...

About 11,000 brick fields are established across Bangladesh to meet the growing demand of construction works as urbanization rises rapidly in the country. About 4,000 brick kilns burn nearly 2 million ...

Hafiza’s life in the brick kilns of Bangladesh is a story of before and after. Once she was like the thousands of seasonal workers who labored in searing conditions under the five-story smokestacks of ...