Most of us blast the AC without thinking twice when summer arrives. It feels like a simple solution to an uncomfortable ...

It keeps happening. Every summer, unprecedented heat surges through cities across the United States—in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho; in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio; and in Maryland, Virginia, and New ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

The rapid expansion of renewable energy is being used to meet rising electricity demands rather than displacing fossil fuels, ...

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 ...

It was perhaps no coincidence that Pope Francis singled out air conditioning as an example of “harmful” consumption in his June 18 Environmental Encyclical, mere days before the Northern Hemisphere ...