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 ...

A study conducted by researchers at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences has revealed that green roofs significantly reduce ...

A field-based evaluation in London, Ontario reveals that the widely used EcoRoof and WRF green roof models diverge sharply in ...

I interviewed seven hotels to learn what drove their investment in green roofs and living walls and what they gained in return.

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 ...

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

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 roofed structures date back thousands of years, even before the concept of housing as it is known today was birthed. The earliest green roofs came in the form of sod roofs above caves. Plants ...

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 ...

New local laws require green roofs and solar panels to help make the city's buildings more sustainable in the face of climate change. Two laws in New York City’s recent Climate Mobilization Act will ...

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 ...

Chicago City Hall, with a green roof, is adjacent to the identical Cook County Building, which has no green roof. (Photo by Patrick L. Pyszka / City of Chicago) This is your first of three free ...