Some homeless people whose tents were removed in mid-July from midtown’s tree-lined streetdeclined the city’s offer of a space at Miller Park Safe Ground because they worried about being “on asphalt ...

The climate crisis is pushing average temperatures higher, and driving longer and hotter heat waves. And all the pavement in our cities only makes it worse. “Cool pavement” may be one tool to help. It ...

A thin film coating can chill a vat of water to 15 degress Fahrenheit cooler than its surroundings, by absorbing—and then emitting—the sun's infrared rays. Christopher Intagliata reports. To ...

Cities like Los Angeles, New York, London, Madrid, and Paris have all acknowledged the bubble-like hotter temperatures within their cities, known widely as the Urban Heat Island effect. Though some ...

A STUDY from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore showed that the use of cool paint coatings helps pedestrians feel up to 1.5 degrees Celsius (C) cooler in urban settings, making the ...

The coating, if used on enough buildings at once, could also help deal with so-called “urban heat islands.” Tomwang112/iStock As temperatures soar worldwide, how do we keep our homes and other ...

When exposed to the sky, the porous polymer passive daytime radiative cooling coating reflects sunlight and emits heat to attain significantly cooler temperatures than typical building materials or ...

Anyone who still runs painted headers is a flake! Factory-applied header paints have about a five-minute post-installation life span. From a longevity standpoint, paint just cant stack up against high ...

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Brian Cooley is CNET's Editor at large and has been with the brand since 1995. He currently focuses on electrification of vehicles but also follows the big trends in smart home, digital healthcare, 5G ...