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Sharmila Kuthunur

'Cooling glass' could fight climate change by reflecting solar radiation back into space

The sun rises above Earth as seen from a space station in orbit.

As the world continues to experience a worsening climate crisis with record-breaking temperatures, scientists have developed a new, highly reflective glass coating that may help cool a rapidly warming Earth.

In theory, the coating — a slurry-like mixture of inexpensive glass and aluminum oxide particles — could reflect high amounts of sunlight off of the surfaces on which it is painted, such as roofs of buildings and roads. 

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