Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trees like these in Boston can help keep neighborhoods cooler on hot days. Yassine Khalfalli/Unsplash, CC BY When summer turns up ...

The city is a growing paradox. Humanity needs its many efficiencies: people living more densely and taking up less land — with easy access to decarbonized public transportation — collaborating and ...

That’s when IAS officer Supriya Sahu stepped in with a surprisingly simple idea. Instead of expensive cooling systems, she launched the Cool Roof initiative — encouraging homes to apply ...

As extreme heat intensified in Chennai, IAS officer Supriya Sahu launched the Cool Roof initiative, painting rooftops with ...

White roofs are one of those climate solutions that sound too good to be true. Compared to solar panels and electric cars, painting the roof of a building white is a suspiciously cheap, analog way to ...

Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill that removes the requirement for cool roofs on new commercial and multi-family buildings with low-sloped roofs. Cool roofs reflect solar energy and reduce heat, but ...

Brilliantly whitewashed houses are a familiar sight in hot countries, from Morocco to Greece. In fact, white-painted roofs “have been used to cool buildings for centuries”, said The Guardian. But ...

While major cities across the United States embrace “cool roof” standards to combat rising urban temperatures, the Pacific Northwest has yet to implement any policies that could reduce local ...

A new report from Boston University suggests that painting the flat black roofs of Boston's brownstones and triple-deckers white could be a quick, cost-effective way to significantly reduce summer ...

Jul. 21, 2025 / PRZen / LOS ANGELES — As part of California’s Title 24 energy efficiency standards, cool roofs are now required for most new and renovated buildings — and Los Angeles homeowners and ...