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With trees disappearing, Malawi turns to "earth bag" houses

2016-07-06 03:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: At the local brick kiln, a truck laden with logs pulls up and unloads. Soon smoke is billowing, as a new set of bricks bakes inside. Malawi's construction industry relies heavily on bricks - and the wood needed to make them is a major reason the country's indigenous forests are fast disappearing. But an unusual home construction technique - using dirt or sand packed into plastic sacks and stacked - is now being tried out in Rumphi, in the north of the country, as a way to cut back on bricks...

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