Studies of thermal comfort in open spaces in various climatic and cultural contexts, seek to create design guidelines for attractive outdoor environments, which improve the quality of urban life. In general, these studies ...

This paper describes different ways of reducing urban air temperature and their results in two cities: Campinas - Brazil- a warm temperate climate with a dry winter and hot summer (CWa), and Mendoza- Argentina -a desert ...

The contribution to global warming of black carbon aerosols (BC or soot) is even larger than the N2O one (IPCC 2013). Black carbon is a term derived from the property of soot particles to absorb light. Most of the light ...

By the end of the exceptionally warm and stormy autumn of 2018, a fish kill occurred in a small hypertrophic pond located in a recreative green area in Buenos Aires (BA, Argentina). As there were no visible signs of an ...

Every day urban centers suffer from rising temperatures. Faced with global warming, degradation of these environments, pose risks to the health of the population, from the thermal discomfort to the occurrence of diseases ...

En el presente trabajo, se realiza un análisis de la sobrepoblación, teniendo en cuenta losefectos en todos los ámbitos del desarrollo de la propia sociedad.Se evalúa la degradación del medioambiente, un aspecto analizado ...

The effect of temperature on the distributions of ectothermic vertebrates is well documented. Despite the increase of 6°C expected in the next 60 years in South America, numerous vertebrates are still considered as ‘Least ...