Green roofs, living roofs, vegetated roofs, ecoroofs — whatever you want to call them, they are sprouting up everywhere lately, including atop residential homes. And with that increase in popularity ...

The conventional wisdom about asphalt-shingle roofs—that you will need to replace yours roughly every 20 to 30 years—dissolves like a wet conventional Kleenex when you get some facts. Your roof can ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers in Pakistan have innovatively turned discarded plastic bags into roofing tiles, ...

White roofs may not be so green. But sometimes the climate system can surprise you — what seems like common sense may prove to be not so commonsensical. In a paper published in the Journal of Climate ...