The pilot in one of the city’s most heat-vulnerable neighborhoods is testing how changes to everyday transit infrastructure ...

How green and cool roofs compare on cost, weight, stormwater and heat, which questions decide the choice, and when commercial ...

As summer temperatures soar across the United States and Europe, cities are being forced to confront the difficult reality that they're getting dangerously hot. One way to help cool buildings is to ...

Green roofs have become increasingly popular thanks to their benefits related to climate adaptation, mitigation, and urban biodiversity management. These vegetated surfaces on the rooftops of ...

A UH Mānoa living laboratory is testing green roofs and living walls as ways to cool buildings, grow food and advance ...

A large percentage of urban land is covered by impervious surfaces such as roads, parking lots, and rooftops. These surfaces prevent rainwater from infiltrating into the ground, causing it to ...

Green roofs, living roofs, vegetated roofs, ecoroofs — whatever you want to call them, they are sprouting up everywhere lately, including atop residential homes. And with that increase in popularity ...

Rooftops covered with grass, vegetable gardens, and lush foliage are now a common sight in many cities around the world. More and more private companies and city authorities are investing in green ...

Many cities have created goals to reduce their carbon footprint over the next couple of years. One way they have found to do this is through the roofs of buildings, i.e. "green" and "cool" roofs. You ...

Created by Julie Farris, the founder of the Brooklyn landscape firm XS Space, the garden now has 2-foot-tall plants with yellow, purple and blue blooms waving in the breeze and attracting birds, bees ...

It looks like an open-air rooftop greenhouse. Or perhaps a manicured mini park in the sky. Green roofs – these secret islands of bucolic beauty that are rarely seen and never heard on the ground – are ...