Using only bare hands and natural materials, a series of colorful mud huts were built deep in the forest, turning dirt and ...

What image comes to mind? We've spent a fair amount of real estate in our past newsletters discussing coded words and phrases — shortcuts that writers use to evoke images or themes, often unfairly. An ...

Natural materials are increasingly popular for home building, but does anyone really want to live in a mud hut? In fact, that's not far off the mark for fans of earth architecture. For the past decade ...

A walk in a colourful Santal village in Birbhum reveals the close connection this tribal community once had with their forest ...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan families on the outskirts of Caracas are expanding a settlement of mud-and-bamboo homes lacking running water, power and sewer services, in another sign of declining ...

Traditional homes in both Uganda and South Sudan are constructed primarily out of natural, local resources. In South Sudan, for example, approximately 90% of homes are grass thatched mud huts.

This is the story of his humble beginnings as seen by friends and teachers. One autumn morning 41 years ago in the village of Privolnoye, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev woke early in his parents' house ...

KEWAL KOHLI, Pakistan, May 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - I n flood-hit southeastern Pakistan, villagers are trading tents and tarpaulins provided by aid agencies for local materials such as lime, ...