Hi everyone. Over the past two episodes, we've been exploring the intersections of climate and health

and the role of innovation in helping us mitigate and adapt to climate threats. Today, we want to

share another podcast that brings those themes together beautifully. It's called When Science Fines

Away. And it's created by a brilliant friends at

Welcome, who you heard all about last week. Hosted by Alicia Wainwright, When Science Finds

Away is full of smart, deeply human stories of innovation, from tackling infectious disease

to reimagining public health in a changing climate.

The clip you're about to hear highlights how researchers and communities are using an incredibly

simple idea, cool roofs, to help people stay safe in extreme heat.

It's a story of science, resilience, and adaptation.

And it's one that shows how powerful climate solutions can be when they put human health and well-being at the centre.

Here's the clip.

So first things first, can you tell me what is a cool roof and how does it work?

Yes.

So the type of cool roof that we used in Noonah,

it's actually a paint with special kind of properties that make it highly reflective. And the

idea is that it basically is something to cool down the indoor ambient temperature. And it works in two ways.

The main kind of way that it works is by reflecting the solar radiation from the sun. And the other way that it works is it actually reduces the heat from being absorbed inside through high thermal immissivity.

So those are kind of bounces off, basically. That's right. So one of the ways is that

it bounces off and the other is that it stops the heat from actually being absorbed inside.

So what are the advantages of a cool roof when we're talking about mitigating extreme heat

for people like Ninase and what are the

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