Last year, when I bought two Midea U window air conditioners, I didn’t know that I had just made the biggest quality-of-life improvement purchase ever. I was replacing dinky, underpowered window units ...

As is the case for many people, my home cannot be retrofitted with central air. My 100-plus-year-old Brooklyn apartment, which features prominently in my seven years of air quality reporting for WIRED ...

The central and eastern US have been hit with a heatwave this week, with several cities recording their highest temperatures of the year thanks to a “heat dome”. High humidity and night-time lows are ...