On a typical summer day, it might be 10-12 degrees cooler in leafy sections of Boston than it is downtown, because unshaded pavement and roofs absorb and radiate so much heat. Reducing pavement or ...
Some U.S. cities are experimenting with reflective pavement coating to cool hot streets while the two largest North Texas cities have rejected those street coatings. In this heatwave, pavement bakes ...
When heat waves hit, people start looking for anything that might lower the temperature. One solution is right beneath our feet: pavement. Think about how hot the soles of your shoes can get when ...
A road crew paints a street in Los Angeles with coating designed to reduce heat. John McCoy/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images When heat waves hit, people start looking for ...
The City of Phoenix Street Transportation Dept. applied a light-colored, reflective coating to roads in eight neighborhoods across the city to study its cooling effects. In an effort to combat heat ...
On Saturday, as temperatures across Los Angeles eclipsed 90 degrees, workers from the Bureau of Street Services spread a gray-colored street seal across a half-block of roadway in Canoga Park, as the ...
The reflective pavement reduces the amount of heat absorbed, which then lowers the amount of heat emitted at night that pushes up nighttime temperatures. This is especially important given that ...
As one of U.S.’ hottest cities, it isn’t surprising that Phoenix is actively seeking ways to reduce air temperatures and improve the health and comfort of its residents. In Maricopa County, news ...
Extreme heat is the deadliest natural hazard in the United States. Between 1992 and 2021, it killed an average of 148 people every year. In the same 30-year period, floods killed about 88 annually ...
When heat waves hit, people start looking for anything that might lower the temperature. One solution is right beneath our feet: pavement. Think about how hot the soles of your shoes can get when ...
As temperatures hit triple digits on a blue-sky July day in the Los Angeles community of Pacoima, families escape the heat at a local park. Many of the surrounding homes lack air conditioning, and the ...
Phoenix also will evaluate what Murphy and Vanos referred to as “cool pavement 2.0” — a darker but more reflective asphalt sealant. The darker gray could be a key factor for residents for multiple ...