Scientifically, the best way to build an igloo is how the Inuit in the North still do it. Here's how to construct your own shelter out of snow.

The answer is of course, an igloo! 'Igloo' is an Inuit word for 'snow house', and 'Inuit' is the word that describes the people who live in the frozen lands of northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland.

Igloos are also a technological marvel, allowing the Inuit to build a temporary shelter or a long-lasting home out of nothing but the snow on hand. In an hour or two, a pair of Inuit Eskimos can ...

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However, the Inuit, the Indigenous peoples of the Arctic and subarctic regions, have mastered the art of surviving in these circumstances by building igloos for shelter.

What's more certain, although perhaps surprising, is that the humble igloo has a lot to teach the modern British house-builder. Last year, a report by the government's architecture watchdog, Cabe, ...

PM contributing editor Jeff Wise travels to northern Quebec to learn the secrets of igloo construction from master builders. Bundle up.

Centuries before you started building snow forts in your backyard, the Inuit had mastered using snow as construction material. This 1949 video, produced by the National Film Board of Canada (and ...

These are made by joining many single igloos together by attaching corridors and walls. This is how the Inuit turn a house for one family into a compound of many rooms to shelter 20 people!

Lifestyle Fuel bills Heat your home for less this winter with Inuit 'igloo' method that also tackles mould As temperatures drop and heating bills rise, experts are looking to Arctic communities ...