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Living Planet: Can reflective roads help LA keep its cool?

Reinhard Spiegelhauer
May 3, 2018

Los Angeles has the greatest density of cars in the US — and a massive network of roads. In summer the asphalt absorbs sunlight and heats up, warming the air above it, an effect that will be exacerbated by climate change. But cool paving could change all that.

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