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White roofs and rooftop lawns can mitigate urban heat island effect White roofs and rooftop lawns can mitigate urban heat island effect

By regulating urban landscapes to alleviate the urban heat island effect, human thermal comfort and living conditions in urban areas can be improved. Although most previous studies focused on only one environmental factor, temperature, they ignored the actual human feeling of thermal comfort, which...

Microplastics threaten typical remote cryospheric regions

Microplastics usually refer to plastic fibers, films, fragments and microbes with sizes less than five millimeters. They are widely distributed in water, soil, sediment, the atmosphere and even snow and ice. It impacts Earth's climate and environment. A research team from the Northwest Institute of...