New Mexicans everywhere are trying to stay cool with some working their swamp coolers overtime. "I rarely had to use my swamp cooler," Carlos Ortiz said. "This year, it's been miserable." Ortiz, like ...

If your traditional window and ceiling fans just aren't cutting it this summer, and you live in an area with relatively low humidity, consider purchasing an evaporative cooler. Also known as "swamp ...

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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 ...

Evaporative coolers are cooling devices that use the evaporation of water into the air to cool the air temperature. They are sometimes called air coolers, desert coolers, or swamp coolers. Evaporative ...