During winter, China provides central heating north of the Qinling Mountains and Huaihe River, that is, between 32 and 34 degrees north of the Equator. Since people living south of the river do not ...

Winter is around the corner. Days are drawing shorter, the temperature outside is dropping and with it comes the season of squabbling over the central heating. Households are already drawing dividing ...

Winter focuses the mind on staying warm, particularly in Central Asia where temperatures can drop to minus 40 degrees Celsius for weeks at a time. As the region prepares for winter, people know that ...

I spent most of my childhood in London, where nobody has a/c and central heating consists of either electric storage heaters or radiators. In the US on the other hand, the standard configuration (in ...

THE UK is in the grip of an Arctic blitz, with temperatures plunging to -12 in some parts of the country tonight. When it’s miserable and chilly outside, our first instinct is to crank up the heating.

As the winter cold sets in, many of us are understandably turning on the central heating. But short-term warmth can have long-term impacts on our skin. Rhysa Phommachanh, skin care and makeup ...

Is there anything cosier than that weirdly comforting burnt smell you get when you turn the heating on for the first time in ages? When the pipes start ticking ominously as the system cranks into ...

Could an electric blanket cut your heating bills? Experts reveal the real cost - How much do they cost to run, and how does ...

A decade ago, gas and coal generated more than 70 per cent of the UK’s electricity. Now, for the first time since 1882 – when the world’s first commercial coal-fired power station opened in London – ...