Painting urban roofs white is perhaps the simplest and most benign of the various schemes that have been proposed to fight climate change through geo-engineering.
Steven Chu, the US energy secretary, advocated white roofs last year but some experts dou…
Preserving organs on ice prior to transplantation, an approach known as cold storage or CS, has been the standard practice in liver transplant for 20 years. Now there is new evidence that a technique called hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) may of…
Computer model simulates impact of white roofs on urban areasPainting the roofs of buildings white has the potential to significantly cool off cities and mitigate some impacts of global warming, results of a new study indicate.The research, the first c…
In a finding that confronts deeply rooted beliefs about parenting, a new study concludes that same-sex couples are as effective at raising children as heterosexual couples.
Running barefoot generates less impact shock making it more comfortable and minimising running-related injuries, study finds
Environment secretary says a way must be found to take account of the economic impact of decisions on biodiversityWorld leaders must find a way to price the impact of their decisions on biodiversity in the same way that the international community is finding a way of pricing carbon, the environment secretary, Hilary Benn, said today.Benn [...]
Cities that win Olympic bids experience neither boom nor bust in their real estate prices, but gain construction jobs as they prepare for the Games, according to researchers at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.The UBC…
Brazil’s Nordeste region, an extensive steppe called the “Sertão”, is home to over 50 million, 28% of the country’s population living on 12% of its surface area, and is one of the world’s most heavily populated semi-arid zones. The inter-…
Threat to native species from alien invaders is growing and posing one of the greatest threats to wildlife around the world, conservationists sayHundreds of invasive species – from rats to diseases – are posing one of the greatest threats to wildlife around the world, conservationists warned today.A study of 57 countries coordinated by the Global [...]
For decades, astronomers have analyzed the impact that asteroids could have on Earth. New research by MIT Professor of Planetary Science Richard Binzel examines the opposite scenario: that Earth has considerable influence on asteroids and from a di…