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 ...

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 ...

Exposure to household air pollution is a risk factor for severe pneumonia. The effect of replacing biomass cookstoves with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cookstoves on the incidence of severe infant ...

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 ...