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 ...

Tuesday marked the official start of summer and triple-digit temperatures made it the hottest day in the Grand Valley for the year...so far. "It's hot, and it's dry, and it's miserable," said Fruita ...

Before even getting into it, we will admit that evaporative coolers come with one major caveat. They work best in dry, arid climates—regions like the American southwest. If you live in an area that ...