Dry stone walls can become an important part of the ecosystem because they become a haven for insects, animals and plants, said Michael Carrington, a landscape architect in San Francisco.

In a move that aims to further the circular economy of the construction industry, researchers at ETH Zurich have let an autonomous excavator loose on a big pile of boulders and reclaimed concrete. … ...

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, said our man Robert Frost, referring to the classic stone walls that crisscross the New England countryside. He blamed “frozen-ground-swell” and ...

The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets, and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere — a latticework of dry ...