If your traditional window and ceiling fans just aren't cutting it this summer, and you live in an area with relatively low ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When summer heat kicks in and your space can’t accommodate a bulky window AC, an evaporative cooler (also ...

Since graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, Nancy Nangeroni’s engineering work has encompassed a variety of projects from loudspeaker designs to lines of answering ...

Evaporative cooling offers an energy-efficient, eco-friendly alternative to traditional air conditioning, especially in dry climates. By using water evaporation to lower air temperature, these systems ...

Which swamp cooler is best? When summer breezes get hot, and there isn’t an air conditioner available, a swamp cooler can help. Swamp coolers don’t provide the frosty chill of air conditioning, but ...

As Seattle sweats through a summer that is giving signs of being among the hottest on record, those who have eschewed air conditioning (eh, it's only used 3 days a year!) or live in a place where air ...

From small, portable models to powerful behemoths that can cool your entire house, here are the best evaporative coolers.

“I just couldn’t think straight,” Albuquerque resident Becky Wood said, describing what it felt like attempting to get work done in an 85-degree house during the city’s hottest summer days. “I would ...

In late May in Albuquerque, as the temperature in Derek Villanueva’s classroom hovered around 80 degrees, he looked out at a sea of flushed, sleepy high-schoolers. His school’s cooling system wasn’t ...