Taylor Swift’s better half is part of a growing trend of homeowners who are building down instead of up. When more of a house ...

Research also shows that all the concrete that goes into building basements adds greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and helps speed up climate change. Is it time to stop building them? In June ...

Whether building basements would have succeeded in saving lives remains a matter of historical debate. But the hundreds — if not thousands of signs — that remain attest to a time when nuclear ...

were using divers to search for survivors in the building's flooded basement. Two people - a 22-year-old man and a 45-year-old woman - were found dead in the basement of the building, reported the ...

Witnesses said the basement flooded quickly ... Videos showed students smashing windows and rappelling down the building using wires and ropes. Many students sustained burn injuries.