Before the widespread use of air conditioning, and for a long time afterwards, most Tucson homes were topped with evaporative coolers, commonly called “swamp coolers” because they chill the dry desert ...

Valley 101, a podcast by The Arizona Republic and azcentral, investigates what happened to swamp coolers, which were once a lower-cost alternative to traditional air conditioning. The episode features ...

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An onslaught of record-high temperatures this year has given Western Slope residents with swamp coolers a heightened sense of urgency, as they consider de-winterizing the evaporation-based ...

The foldable cooler fits snugly in places like no hard cooler before it. This is what I thought of the Snap 'N Go after some testing. Corin Cesaric-Epple is an Editor at CNET covering home and kitchen ...

For years, the thousands of acres of land at the edge of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge were an environmental battlefield, the site of a planned titanium mine that drew fierce resistance from ...

The Community Home Repair Projects of Arizona is facing a massive influx of calls for swamp cooler activations at mobile homes due to unseasonably hot weather and recent funding cuts. TUCSON, Ariz.

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