In a world where the climate is increasingly hot and volatile, farmers are having trouble keeping their crops cool. A startup ...

Plastic is a good choice for a greenhouse. It's light, it's cheap, and it allows lots of sunlight to reach the plants. Unfortunately, it also requires a lot of maintenance. Plastic is cheaper than ...

Plastic sheeting is used as a covering to help let in plenty of light while keeping the cold out. The greenhouse is also heated, and can maintain a 40 deg F temperature differential with 14,000 BTUs.

Its technology reduces temperatures inside greenhouses by up to 7 degrees Celsius, without losing any light, by using nanotechnology embedded within plastic polymer sheeting to cut out near ...

or connections between the plastic panels, tend to leak. In 1988, the Missouri Botanical Garden closed its huge geodesic greenhouse, the Climatron, when the Plexiglas panels in the dome became ...