Lego is finally on its way to making its iconic toy bricks more sustainable. The toymaker unveiled this week a prototype brick made entirely of recycled plastic — but it's not yet available in stores.

Lego is forgoing one of its oil-free recycled plastic block prototypes after testing showed the material didn't cut down on carbon emissions. However, the toymaker isn't ditching the effort to make ...

BOSTON - Lego is moving on from a plan to manufacture its bricks out of recycled plastic bottles but says it is still "fully committed" to making its iconic toy blocks from sustainable materials by ...

London (CNN) — Lego has abandoned plans to make its famous bricks from recycled plastic bottles, saying that the manufacturing process would be more polluting than the current production of oil-based ...

Explorers planning to settle on Mars might be able to turn the planet’s red soil into bricks without needing to use an oven or additional ingredients. Instead, they would just need to apply pressure ...

Moses and Aaron, the Old Testament tells us, had to make bricks without straw before their people could leave Egypt and begin the journey to the Promised Land. Bob and Dick have to figure out how to ...

In Umerkot, Sindh, there are many children who can explain the science of brick-making with more confidence than they can read a textbook. They know the soil by touch, the water by measure, the sun by ...

Workers load bricks from inside the kiln as light floods in from a hole at the top. Photo: Yang Hui/GT Braving temperatures of more than 50 degrees in a dome made of mud and bricks, a worker shovels ...

In last month’s State of the Union address, President Obama sounded the alarm on climate change, pausing to enumerate his administration’s accomplishments but also underscoring the problems that lie ...

The Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium said they are removing some of their legacy bricks as part of its 20-year plan to revitalize the campus and making them available as keepsakes for donors. New ...