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1. Cool Roofs Could Have Saved Lives During London’s Hottest Summer ...: (News); As many as 249 lives could have been saved in London during the 2018 record-setting hot summer had the city widely adopted cool roofs, estimates a new study by researchers at UCL and the University of ...; Created on 02 October 2024
2. Cool Roofs Are Best at Beating Cities’ Heat ...: (News); Painting roofs white or covering them with a reflective coating would be more effective at cooling cities like London than vegetation-covered “green roofs,” street-level vegetation or solar panels, finds ...; Created on 04 July 2024
3. Cool Roofs Can Help Shield California’s Cities Against Heat Waves ...: (News); ... the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) shows that if every building in California sported “cool” roofs by 2050, these roofs would help contribute to protecting ...; Created on 14 August 2019
4. Urban Heat: Can White Roofs Help Cool World’s Warming Cities? ...: (News); ... aggressive local geoengineering to maintain our cool grows. Summers in the city can be extremely hot — several degrees hotter than in the surrounding countryside. But recent research indicates that ...; Created on 19 March 2018
5. Cool Roofs Have Water Saving Benefits Too ...: (News); The energy and climate benefits of cool roofs have been well established: By reflecting rather than absorbing the sun’s energy, light-colored roofs keep buildings, cities, and even the entire planet cooler. ...; Created on 20 October 2017
6. Newly engineered material can cool roofs, structures with zero energy consumption ...: (News); ... conditioning system for structures. It has the ability to cool objects even under direct sunlight with zero energy and water consumption. When applied to a surface, the metamaterial film cools the object ...; Created on 15 February 2017
7. Newly engineered material can cool roofs, structures with zero energy consumption ...: (News); ... conditioning system for structures. It has the ability to cool objects even under direct sunlight with zero energy and water consumption. A team of University of Colorado Boulder engineers has developed ...; Created on 09 February 2017
8. Common Plastics Could Passively Cool and Heat Buildings with the Seasons ...: (News); In an article published June 27 in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science, they report that by restricting radiant heat flows between buildings and their environment to specific wavelengths, coatings ...; Created on 27 June 2024
9. Could the Global Boom in Greenhouses Help Cool the Planet? ...: (News); ... urbanites. There are so many of them that in places their plastic and glass roofs are reflecting sufficient solar radiation to cool local temperatures — even as surrounding areas warm due to climate change. ...; Created on 20 June 2024
10. Study Finds Fungal-Rich Soil May Improve Green Roofs: (News); ... buildings, and cool neighborhoods, tempering urban heat islands while also creating urban habitats for plants, pollinators, and wildlife. But, in the U.S., green roofs are typically planted with non-native ...; Created on 31 January 2024

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