For Jay Clark, a self-described “snowbird” who divides his time between Vermont and New Orleans, the Crescent City’s mild winters are a large part of its appeal. He and his wife, Lillian Gahagan, ...

Does your driveway look like a patchwork quilt, with raised and sunken surfaces; chipped, off-color mortar stuffed into jagged cracks; and a generation's worth of oil, paint and mold stains? Has the ...

"The permeable pavers have the exact same properties as regular pavers. They simply have larger spacers or lugs on the sides, and the spaces are filled with gravel," Paden said. The small rice-sized ...

For a landscaping update that can add curb appeal, help limit stormwater runoff and prevent pollution, a growing number of homeowners are installing permeable driveways. Permeable paving lets water ...

Michael Bratton of Piper Whitney Construction holds a sample of water-permeable concrete. Too much pavement. That was one of the oft-cited reasons Houston flooded so badly during Harvey – and why it ...

Santa Barbara recently replaced the sidewalks around Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens with permeable pavers to save water. (Joshua Molina / Noozhawk photo) The city of Santa Barbara has been replacing ...

Bioinspired artificial water channels aim to combine the high permeability and selectivity of biological aquaporin (AQP) water channels with chemical stability. Here, we carefully characterized a ...

A milestone in graphene research: Chemists have succeeded in controlling the passage of halide ions by deliberately introducing defects into a two-layer nanographene system. Their paper shows new ...