Polluting biomass stoves, used by one-third of the global population, take a terrible toll. But efforts to clean them up are failing. Whisps of smoke rise up from their chulha, the Indian name given ...

On a typical day in Tezo, Kenya, the sun blazes at nearly 100 o F in a cloudless blue sky. It is late in the afternoon by the time the women and young girls return with water, dusty and tired from the ...

The technology is dubbed the rocket stove, a seemingly simple device that has a large vertical cylinder to hold a pot and an opening at the bottom to feed the combustible biomass to efficiently cook a ...

Women in India who cook using fuels such as wood, crop residues and dried dung instead of cleaner fuels are more likely to have visually impairing nuclear cataracts¹, according to a new study ...

24 million out of 60 million households in Indonesia still use traditional biomass, usually tree branches, for cooking. Traditional stoves produce indoor air pollution which cause illnesses that lead ...