It’s winter there now, but summers in Brisbane, Australia, are warm, with the hottest months in December through February. The country only recently came out of a decade-long drought, so it makes ...

Before they were provided with white paint, women in Badi Bhil Basti used to dampen the curtains inside to try and keep cool (Credit: Mitul Kajaria) Extreme heat is having a detrimental impact on ...

NEW YORK - Herb Van Gent points his infrared gun at a square of still unpainted gray shingle and clicks the trigger. He gets an immediate temperature reading: 143 degrees and rising. Then, he aims it ...

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 ...

The Cool Roofs program has officially launched in Pittsburgh. Through the servePGH initiative, the roofs of 10 city-owned buildings will be coated with reflective paint. “In the coming months, ...

The cool roof research was funded by the City of Melbourne, as part of a larger Green Infrastructure development program at the University of Melbourne Burnley Campus; including green roofs, walls, ...

Solar roof paints and coatings are ideal for all sorts of architectural surfaces and feature fading-resistant inorganic pigments. Applying a good solar roof paint solution on your roof restricts ...

New York and other cities see a climate fix in white paint, which is coating more rooftops as way to cool buildings and cut energy use. They may soon have another option: paint made of glass.

The paint reflects 98.1% of solar radiation while also emitting infrared heat. How soon until it's on the shelves at a major retailer? The paint is intended to be used on roofs, including roofing ...

Metal roofing material is known for its durability, but it also offers two other sustainable attributes that are sometimes overlooked: enhanced energy-efficiency and high recyclability. Metal roofing ...