Your air conditioner probably isn’t the prettiest appliance in your home, but it is one of the most important in the summer months. Whether you have a single window unit or multiple portable ones, an ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- If you hadn't turned on your air conditioner yet this summer, there's a very good chance you did this past weekend. Over the past generation, air conditioning has become the ...

Air quality in Southern California is at unhealthful levels because of wildfires close to home — the Bobcat and El Dorado fires — and all over California and the West Coast. Experts recommend that you ...

In this episode of the podcast Social Distance, executive producer Katherine Wells and staff writer James Hamblin discuss the viral-transmission risks of indoor air and the best way to mitigate them.

Roof materials can radiate heat into the universe, cooling homes even under direct sunlight, combined with temperature-driven ventilation. The new passive cooling approach can keep indoor temperatures ...

I recently returned from visiting family in America and was struck by how hot I felt back home in London, despite the temperatures being lower. Partly, this was down to humidity: London is sticky in ...

Electric heat pumps are a way to cool and heat homes at a much lower carbon cost than traditional air-conditioners and furnaces. By Brad Plumer As global warming fuels deadly heat waves across the ...

The sun came blazing through the sliding glass door in Jollene Brown’s cramped studio apartment, a converted storage unit in southeast Portland, Oregon. As the heat started rising in late June — ...