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, ...

When we were having the shell of our present home built the builder called us and said it was hard to work because of the cold weather. He told us he had an air tight wood stove he would install for a ...

In a recent article published in Scientific Reports, researchers conducted a population-based study with a case–control design in rural areas of Honduras in Central America to examine whether wood ...

Women in developing countries who cook over a wood stove for years and inhale the smoke can develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and experience the same clinical characteristics, diminished ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

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 ...

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 ...

Project Surya effort to improve public health and slow pace of global warming provides rural women in India access to results-based climate financing A multiyear experiment in healthier and more ...

A multiyear experiment in healthier and more environmentally sustainable cooking practices among the world’s poorest three billion people has found key breakthroughs that can substantially improve ...