The rocket stove is a wood-burning outdoor cooking stove that was developed by Dr. Larry Winiarski in the 1980s as a safe, effective, environmentally conscious alternative to open fires for ...

When it comes to climate change, not everyone around the globe uses a clean cook stove. However, you can, and we tell you how.

How We Tested It. Setting up the EcoZoom rocket stove is outstandingly simplejust put it on the ground, open both the doors, position the support rack in front of them and add your fuel.

Outside of the home, PM2.5 mostly comes from burning fossil fuels such as gasoline in cars or coal for electricity. Inside, cooking is one of the largest known sources.

Indoor smoke from coal, wood or dung – used as cooking fuel by more than 3 billion people worldwide – ranks ahead of unsafe water as a cause of death in low- and middle-income countries.

It’s easy to forget how comfortable our lives have become. When we cook food with the twist of a stove knob or heat our homes with the nudge of a thermostat, we fail to recall that in the not ...

Dr. Sandra Koch writes: I’ve found myself talking more about new information on the health risks from indoor gas appliances, gas stoves and gas ovens.

The click of a gas stove igniting is the sound of dinner in millions of U.S. homes. But how safe are they? We tested them against induction cooktops to find out.

WASHINGTON Nearly three billion people in the developing world cook their meals on primitive indoor stoves fueled by crop waste, wood, coal and dung. Every year, according to the United Nations ...

Cooking with gas-fired stoves can cause unsafe levels of toxics to accumulate inside homes, exposing people to roughly the same cancer risk as breathing secondhand cigarette smoke, according to a ...

Indoor use of stoves and firewood can expose children, especially those under the age of five to the risk of lung infection and respiratory diseases, a Public Health Physician, Dr. Rahmat Odesesan ...