Around 72 percent of New York City's land is covered in an impervious layer of concrete, living up to its hype as the "concrete jungle" that Alicia Keys and Jay-Z sang about in "Empire State of Mind." This city might be "where ...
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Sep 4, 2019
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Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) conducted a multi-year empirical study to assess the impact of trees on city temperatures. Taking the city of Würzburg as an example, the researchers showed that vegetation ...
Environment
May 20, 2022
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Alleviating the urban heat-island effect through regulating urban landscape can improve human thermal comfort and living environment in urban residential areas. However, most previous studies focused on the single environmental ...
Environment
May 25, 2022
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Portland State study demonstrates how plants, trees and reflective materials can reduce extreme heat in city neighborhoods
Environment
Jul 8, 2019
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More than half of the world's population currently lives in cities while projections show an increase to two thirds by 2050. Many people living in small areas means large amounts of waste, high resource consumption and loads ...
Environment
Jun 25, 2019
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Urban greening is unlikely to provide a single fix for tackling extreme weather events brought on by climate change, scientists have suggested.
Environment
Jan 26, 2022
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As the brutal reality of climate change dawned this summer, you may have asked yourself a hard question: am I well-prepared to live in a warmer world?
Environment
Feb 19, 2020
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"Green" roofs, those increasingly popular urban rooftops covered with plants, could help fight global warming, scientists in Michigan are reporting.
Environment
Sep 23, 2009
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We've built our cities to be vulnerable to—and exacerbate—major weather events such as the one we saw in Auckland on Friday. While almost no city in the world could fully escape the effects of four months' worth of rain ...
Environment
Jan 31, 2023
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(Phys.org) -- A research team in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech has released early results of an experimental study testing the effects of green roofs on controlling urban runoff.
Environment
Jul 3, 2012
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