A summer of soaring temperatures has come to an end with more Britons turning to air conditioning to cope with the heat - but should you buy one too? The benefits of air-con are well documented.

As the world gets hotter demand for cooling systems is increasing, but energy-hungry air conditioning risks making the situation worse. Starr Charles explores whether more efficient solutions are ...

A family trip can be uncomfortable if you're sweltering or shivering in a hotel room. (Getty Images) If you’ve ever stepped into a hotel room after a long journey and immediately wrestled with the air ...

If there’s one thing I’ve learned as I’ve got older, it’s that British summers aren’t what they used to be. Whether that’s a ‘me’ thing or not, they definitely feel hotter, stickier and far less ...

New data shows Italy is by far the EU's largest consumer of air conditioning, followed by Greece, France and Spain. As Europe swelters under another heatwave, air conditioning remains an indispensable ...

The Boiler Upgrade Scheme, which currently supports property owners in replacing outdated boilers, is limited to heat pumps that provide heating only and cannot pump out cool air. However, ministers ...

Tyne and Wear Metro bosses are still trying to correct a fault that is causing water to pour into the carriages of the network’s new trains. Trains from the Metro’s Stadler-built fleet had to be ...

With temperatures soaring past 96 degrees, and that's not even counting the heat index, it's safe to say we're in the thick of a serious summer scorcher. Cranking up the air conditioner has become ...

Cambridge (United Kingdom) (AFP) – The soft, waxy "solid refrigerant" being investigated in a UK laboratory may not look very exciting, but its unusual properties promise an air-conditioning ...

How to keep your car air conditioning running ice cold this summer WITH summer in full swing and heatwaves predicted, keeping cool is on everyone’s mind. Thankfully, air conditioning in most modern ...

A tail of an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane that crashed is seen stuck on a building after the incident in Ahmedabad, India. | Amit Dave/Reuters Nineteen-year-old Dhruv Gujjar, an undergraduate ...