With rising temperatures becoming the norm, keeping your home cool without AC is becoming a year-round priority, especially as air conditioning becomes too expensive or impractical for many spaces.

Right now, if you're lucky enough to have it at home, it's likely that you're running your air conditioner daily. But how do you keep a home cool in a power outage? First things first, don't panic!

Another heat wave—this one steeped in humid air, including from a Midwestern phenomenon called corn sweat—is blanketing the eastern half of the U.S. this week in July. Tens of millions of people are ...

ST. LOUIS — High temperatures can put a strain on your body, your wallet and your air conditioner unit. Here are some tips for different goals during summer heat waves. First and foremost, keep people ...

Climate change has been exacerbating heat waves, and the problem isn’t going away anytime soon. An increasingly hot planet — due largely to burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas — ...

Be sure to face your box fans the right directions in windows this summer. Michiganders can use fans as an option to cool their homes this season. Summer heat has begun and if you're looking to save ...

Temperatures could hit 100 degrees Monday and Tuesday — a level of heat that Philadelphia hasn't reached since 2012. But people who need to be at home, for work or any other reason, are stuck trying ...

As hurricane season approaches, dangerous storms in the coming months could leave thousands of Texas homes without electricity. Those who find themselves with no power could be left searching for ...

Georgia is bracing for extreme heat next week, with heat indices expected to exceed 110°F in several cities including Atlanta, Athens, Columbus, and Macon. Officials warn of life-threatening ...