Elliott Hostetter, who lost his Altadena home to the Eaton fire, steps out of a SuperAdobe during a tour at the CalEarth Institute. Such structures are capable of withstanding a colossal natural ...

Columbia has the South Carolina State Museum, but by next summer, Charleston will have a museum of its own that will interpret the state's history, in a different sort of way. For decades, the South ...

Downtown Charleston, S.C. (WCBD) – It’s Wednesday and that means it is time to explore the history that surrounds the Lowcountry. This week, we head to downtown Charleston to learn about the Fireproof ...

As blazes burn our homes, a smattering of mud evangelists are resurfacing the ancient, fireproof building style as a solution for the future. It looked like a bucket brigade in the desert: a line of ...

A Charleston landmark first built to preserve state records reopens Saturday to present its history. The new South Carolina Historical Society Museum highlights many of the most interesting artifacts, ...

While no building is truly fireproof, construction materials and systems can make a building fire safe. Fire-resistive construction gives time to discover a fire, suppress it before it spreads and ...

Carbon dioxide (CO₂), the greenhouse gas fueling climate change, is increasingly shaping our lives. It drives rising seas, fierce storms, invasive pests, and raging wildfires. Traditional approaches ...

Days after the surfacing of reports that he and his wife had hired a private team of firefighters to protect their neighborhood from the California wildfires, Kanye West has put together an idea about ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The FDNY says Sunday's deadly Bronx apartment building fire was caused by a malfunctioning space heater in a bedroom. Making things worse, it said an apartment door was left ...

Fireproof vent grilles are increasingly specified as part of building ventilation and smoke control systems, where their function is to limit the spread of fire and smoke through air pathways while ...