Joyce Chaplin's new book "The Franklin Stove" is out now. (Book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux; author photo courtesy Saffron Sener) The winter of 1740-41 was exceptionally cold and ...

LONDON, March 7 (Reuters) - A global standard setter for voluntary carbon projects has approved three new methods for projects that reduce emissions by switching to cleaner fuels used in domestic ...

For those who came of age during the early days of MTV, Peter Wolf will forever be known as the frontman of the J. Geils Band, whose “Centerfold” and “Freeze Frame” videos were as much a ...

Electric stoves burn cleaner and more efficiently than gas—in fact, per the Department of Energy, they’re about three times more energy-efficient than their gas counterparts. They’re also ...

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A new electric induction stove with built-in battery storage offers a surprising answer — allowing users to cook efficiently during power outages. Copper's Charlie range is an innovative induction ...

Known for his kite experiment, he proved lightning was electricity and invented the lightning rod, bifocals and Franklin stove. He also founded the first public library and the University of ...

For 47 million American households, cooking means a gas stove. Gas stoves generate gases that aren’t good for people’s health and the gas itself contributes to climate change. But switching to ...