Asbury Woods' Nature Center, for the past two decades, has utilized a green roof, also known as a vegetative roof, made of living plants. Green roofs offer environmental benefits such as reducing ...

It was a sunny September morning in Rio de Janeiro's Parque Arará favela and volunteers were preparing plants to be placed on Reginaldo Gomes da Silva's roof. Students from both the neighborhood ...

<p>Green roofs consist of soil and plant layers placed over the roofing, usually a mastic or rubber layer, of a &ndash;generally&mdash;flat roof. Calvin College is one of the few academic institutions ...

Green roofs are vegetated spaces on top of buildings. They offer many benefits like capturing stormwater, cooling the environment, and supporting biodiversity. They also suck carbon out of the air ...

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Every other Friday, the Outside/In team answers a listener question about the natural world. This week’s question comes from Collin in Brandon, Manitoba, in Canada. A green roof is a roof that’s ...

A small team of researchers at Tongji University, working with a colleague from the Shanghai Academy of Landscape Architecture Science and Planning, both in China, has found that growing plants on ...

A Tongji University research project has provided evidence that green roofs can remove microplastics from rainwater, according to Anthropocene. The vegetative building toppers have long been used to ...

I have a green roof. It’s green asphalt composition, except in the summer when the eight overhead redwood trees drop all their needles, and the roof turns brown. But I’ve always wondered about the ...

Snøhetta and developer Next Step have designed a green, walkable neighborhood near idyllic Landvettersjøen Lake in Sweden. The project will transform a quarry into an eco-friendly housing project ...

Green roofs may be low maintenance, but they still need regular TLC. Follow these expert-led steps to keep yours healthy and ...