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Assessment of urban cooling using reflective surfaces
A new study focuses on the application of reflective surfaces in order to cool the urban environment. The temperatures in urban environments can be significantly higher than those in surrounding ru...
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The 'urban heat island' effect could force several major cities to face climate change costs at least twice as big as the rest of the world
Some of the world’s largest cities could face temperatures up to 8°C higher than those of today, because of the combination of increased greenhouse gas emissions and the ‘urban heat is...
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