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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If your traditional window and ceiling fans just aren’t cutting it this summer, and you live in an area ...

Summer in the Pacific Northwest seems to last five minutes — but those five minutes are intense. When the days heat up, my normal course of action is to take my kids to an air-conditioned mall or ...

If you live in a dry climate — especially in the West and Southwest — air conditioning isn't your only option for keeping a room cool. A portable evaporative cooler (aka "swamp" cooler) does basically ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When GerRee Anderson and her husband bought their Wheat Ridge home a couple of years ago, its aging metal evaporative cooler was working, but earlier this ...

Never heard of a swamp cooler? You're not alone. Sometimes called an evaporative cooler, these efficient appliances can help beat the heat in certain climates and may be a better option than air ...

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 ...