Every summer, our cities burn energy to keep us cool. The same happens in winter with the increasing demand for heating.

Over this scorching hot Fourth of July, millions of Americans from California to Louisiana will put their air conditioning into overdrive. Who could blame them? AC can be a matter of life and death.

Extreme heat is making cooling a necessity. The result will be sky-high energy demand. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review's weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox ...

Consider it the feedback loop from hell: The greenhouse gas emissions air-conditioning releases ensure that we will continue to rely on it. Paige Avila cools off her brother Eric Avila in ...

Think about the last time you truly suffered through oppressive heat without any relief. Now imagine that's your reality ...

Nearly every state in the country does not have universal air conditioning in their prisons, a USA TODAY analysis found, illustrating a deadly problem for inmates and staff as climate change threatens ...

This story was produced through a collaboration between The Arizona Republic and Climate Central. Climate Central scientist Jennifer Brady contributed data reporting. On hot days at Flagstaff High ...

If it were up to Jacques Wallace, no Chicagoan would find a loved one dead of heat stress, without air conditioning, ever again. Wallace still remembers how hot it was a decade ago when he walked into ...

Europeans rely less on air conditioning than many other citizens around the world. But figures show that its use has steadily increased on the continent as temperatures have risen due to human-caused ...

In 2026 The demand for portable, energy-efficient cooling solutions has grown rapidly as people look for alternatives to ...

Oregon is shipping air conditioners, air purifiers and power banks to some of its most vulnerable residents, a first-in-the-nation experiment to use Medicaid money to prevent the potentially deadly ...