Tucked away in what locals affectionately call Florida’s Forgotten Coast, Apalachicola presents an alternative narrative to the state’s typical tourism story – one where authenticity trumps attraction ...

The Himalayan village of Samjung did not die in a day. Perched in a wind-carved valley in Nepal’s Upper Mustang, more than 13 ...

climate change White roofs can cool down homes – but scaling up this simple solution is a challenge It helps reflect between 30% and 70% of sunlight, and cools houses. So why can’t everyone do it?

Researchers also painted some roofs with reflective paint to reduce indoor heat and will compare them to homes without so-called cool roofs using indoor heat sensors. Along with the smartwatches ...

If they find that cool roofs effectively reduce indoor heat, they plan to paint the roofs of all the homes. Researchers hope their study leads to more use of solutions like cool roofs for poor ...

Corrugated tin roofs can trap heat, sometimes resulting in indoor temperatures that are up to 5 degrees Celsius hotter than outside© Mahila Housing Trust ...

Corrugated tin roofs can trap heat, sometimes resulting in indoor temperatures that are up to 5 degrees Celsius hotter than outside Image: Mahila Housing Trust ...

Mervin, Andy, Ringo and Edwuar grew up in Los Pescadores, a poor neighborhood of small homes with tin roofs and dirt streets in the country’s oil capital of Maracaibo.

Indian slums get 'cool roofs' to combat extreme heat The effort, which involves 400 households in Ahmedabad, is part of a global scientific trial to study how indoor heat impacts people's health ...

Early results from the Burkina Faso trial, Bunker said, show that cool roofs reduced indoor temperature by between 1.2 C in tin- and mud-roofed homes, and 1.7 C in tin-roofed homes over two years ...