Sizzling Hot Streets: A Growing Public Health Threat
Climate change is pushing temperatures higher, and with that comes a hidden danger: scorching hot pavement on streets. Contact burns from touching asphalt become a...
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Heatwave Is Melting Airport Runway In Britain
England is being cooked by a lethal heatwave – literally, in the instance of one Royal Air Force facility, where the runway melted. Planes from...
Extreme Heat Is Melting Roads All Over The World
During last weekend’s deadly heat wave, some roads in the US Pacific Northwest buckled, same was seen in other parts of the world like India....
Plastic Asphalt: Makes It Possible To Recycle Roads
The City of Angels, USA, is working with a startup called TechniSoil Industrial, to repave one of its downtown roads using a mixture of recycled plastic and...
India building Roads from Plastic Waste
A new road building technique for the 21st century is advancing fast in India today. More than 33,796 km of roads in India are plastic...