A century ago, home life in Vermont revolved around the wood burning cook stove. Meals were prepared, bread baked and hands warmed from the heat it produced. Stoves with names like Gold Coin, ...

It’s one of the world’s biggest killers, leading to lung cancer, heart disease, and COPD, not to mention child pneumonia and low birth-weight babies. It affects billions of people. And if you think it ...

Vegetable steamer wood stoves offer a simple, fuel-efficient way to cook outdoors—but some foods work better than others.

DURHAM, N.C. -- Replacing traditional biomass-burning cookstoves across sub-Saharan Africa could save more than 463,000 lives and US $66 billion in health costs annually, according to a new analysis ...

New measurements of soot produced by traditional cook stoves used in developing countries suggest that these stoves emit more harmful smoke particles and could have a much greater impact on global ...

Until recently, Hadija Hasan Chocha cooked her family’s meals on an open fire in a thatched kitchen at her home in Mchakama Village. “Three time a week I would walk to the nearby forest to find ...

Wood stoves used in developing countries emit more harmful smoke particles and could have a much greater impact on global climate change than previously thought, according to research published in the ...

SEIYHAMA, NAGALAND, INDIA - 2009/12/08: Naga woman Kevisienuo, age 50, cooks with Naga chilies in her home with one of her children strapped to her back. Her husband is a chile farmer. A basket of the ...