Beat the Heat: How Self-Cooling Artificial Turf is Transforming Cities
A new artificial turf can cool itself by storing rainwater and using capillary action to reduce surface temperatures, providing a safer and more sustainable alternative…
A new artificial turf can cool itself by storing rainwater and using capillary action to reduce surface temperatures, providing a safer and more sustainable alternative…
New satellite data reveals that a third of China’s urban population faces the threat of city subsidence. According to researchers from Virginia Tech and the…
According to scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Virginia Tech, land subsidence is an underestimated hazard in urban areas. Writing in the…
A study in Portland, Oregon has found that planting trees on streets can lead to a decrease in mortality rates and that the impact becomes…
Most cities brew up a blend of gases that covers the urban area like a dome. The top of most buildings can sit outside or…
Researchers are trying to make detailed predictions about how urban areas are likely to grow in order to forecast how the next few decades of…