Across some of the planet’s driest regions, engineers are racing to turn humidity into a reliable tap, using materials that ...

Tired of fridge odours and wilted produce? A simple, damp sponge can be your secret weapon. This low-cost trick stabilises humidity, absorbing excess moisture and trapping odour molecules. It helps ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Most summer days, you hear us talk about “humidity” when describing how the air feels. While many people are familiar with the term relative humidity — the percentage of water vapor in ...

Not to be trite, but the air lately has been quite uncomfortable because of the amount of water in suspension. We often refer to this as “heavy” air because it is so dense. We will witness heavy ...

The second marathon of my life did not go as planned. The buildup for Grandma’s Marathon, which is one of the few high-profile marathons in June in the U.S., went about as well as it could have. My ...

The first major heat wave of summer has enveloped much of the midwestern and eastern U.S. in a brutal “dome” of record temperatures and high humidity. The dome phenomenon happens when weather ...

Some hot days feel even worse thanks to high humidity, trapped heat and dew points. Cities are especially vulnerable. By Nazaneen Ghaffar Nazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. It ...

The Chicago area is bracing for extreme heat and humidity in the coming days, and experts said it could become more common with changing weather patterns. A Chicago doctor said extreme humidity ...

Every summer, I get asked this question: "Why don't you use relative humidity? I don't care about the dew point." The thing is - you should care about the dew point more. The dew point is quite ...