When it comes to farming, only certain crops can develop in certain climates. With modern advances in refrigeration and transportation, many places have been able to get around this. Much of the food ...

Inside a shipping container in the U.K. city of Sheffield, new technology uses water and renewable electricity to pull CO2 out of the air. Other companies are already using “direct air capture” ...

Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of shipping containers are sitting empty at ports all over the world. And they've been a treasure trove for architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. "We found ...

Like many curious children, Paul Rathnam’s kids love to play with cardboard boxes, building creative structures out of the empty packaging. Rathnam sees a parallel between their recreation and what he ...

IT TOOK AWHILE for shipping-container homes to come to Indianapolis (insert landlocked joke here), but the first one that arrived is extra-special—it’s designed by Travis Price Architects in ...

Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted a video Wednesday of the state’s latest attempt to secure the Texas-Mexico border: about 20 shipping containers lined up along the riverbank next to the international bridge ...

It's hard to believe that something as mundane and unappealing as a shipping container can turn into a modern, stylish beach house that's not only easily movable but highly affordable. The idea of ...

When Matt Manalo moved to Houston from the Philippines as a teenager in 2004, he tried his hand at computer engineering and nursing, but he knew that his passion lay in art. He immersed himself in the ...

The University of California at Berkeley took the drastic step of erecting a wall of shipping containers to keep protestors out of a site of a planned student housing complex. The $312 million project ...

Ah, the unassuming shipping container. It's really nothing more than a big steel box with a couple of doors. At any given time, millions of containers are piled on ships plying the world's waterways.