The climate crisis demands that we retrofit them—which won’t happen at scale until architects start seeing themselves as political actors. These buildings were made to devour energy.(Yuki Iwamura / ...

Starting this year, thousands of buildings in New York City will have to start reducing their carbon emissions. But before that happens, owners need to understand how much pollution they are ...

The new design aims to show that "discarded material can be restructured into public infrastructure,” the architect told ...

West Harlem-based advocacy organization WE ACT for Environmental Justice released a report last month on outdoor air pollution from buildings, highlighting a critical source of air pollution that ...

Colorado has mandated gas utilities to reduce air pollution by 41% by 2035, Canary Media reported. The action aims to cut harmful carbon pollution from homes and buildings while potentially setting a ...

Denise Grab is a manager and Jonny Kocher is an associate on RMI’s Carbon-Free Buildings team. RMI is an independent nonprofit founded in 1982 that transforms global energy systems through ...

The Clean Air Act gives the U.S. government broad power to protect public health by regulating major sources of pollutants. Rules developed under the law have, for ...

We typically spend 80% of our time indoors, where the quality of the air we breathe depends on the age and type of building we occupy, as well as indoor pollution and outdoor pollution sources. But ...

Spring migration can be a deadly journey for billions of birds as they travel north. Several cities in the Midwest create an especially deadly path for birds where light pollution and buildings ...

The climate crisis demands that we retrofit them—which won’t happen at scale until architects start seeing themselves as political actors. As an architecture critic, I’ve always maintained that the ...