White or reflective roofs significantly reduce temperatures. Atlanta is the latest city to mandate their adoption.

Boston University researchers found that planting about 2,500 trees and installing 3,000 “cool roofs” could bring relief to ...

The CEO of Florida Citrus Sports lauded the future of the stadium a week after renderings were published showing off the $400 ...

Broken air conditioning? Afghan taxi drivers have come up with an inventive way to beat the intense heat.In Kandahar, a city ...

The Atlanta City Council recently unanimously passed a "smart surfaces" policy requiring new and replacement roofs to meet high solar reflectance standards-- meaning they have to be built with ...

A narrower cool-roof ordinance, which applied only to new roofs on commercial buildings 25,000 square feet or larger, ultimately passed three years later, despite more opposition from the industry.

My mother-in-law helped me settle into our apartment, offering me tips to help keep cool, such as choosing cool colors like ...

For 20-year-old Mayank Yadav, riding a crowded bus in the summer months in this western Indian city can be like sitting in an ...

Tennessee Rep. Rusty Grills says a lobbyist proposed a simple idea: repeal the state’s requirement for reflective roofs on many commercial buildings.