Life on the Keweenaw Peninsula offers a short weather window for summer activities but year-round options for solar power, writes researcher Ana Dyreson, assistant professor of mechanical engineering.

Humid environments present some of the most complex challenges in architectural design. From the tropical monsoon season of Southeast Asia to the equatorial heat of Central Africa, these environments ...

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Modern buildings tend to take electricity and air conditioning for granted. They often have glass facades and windows that can’t be opened. And when the power goes out for days in the middle of a heat ...

Within a century, half of the world’s climates as we know them will have vanished forever as a direct result of global warming, taking thousands of species with them. These are the gloomy projections ...