The project aims to understand how these extreme ... open image in gallery Aditi Bunker, an epidemiologist, speaks with Manisha Barot and Roshani Barot, whose one-room house's rooftop has been ...

home is where people have come to find shelter and respite against external elements," said Aditi Bunker, an epidemiologist at the University of Heidelberg in Germany who is leading the project ...

In the Indian city of Ahmedabad, where temperatures have been reaching extreme highs, exceeding 115ºF in recent summers, a simple solution is helping cool homes.

Over the last two months, hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of India’s western Gujarat state have been painted in a reflective, white coating in order to keep their occupants cooler as the ...