Abstract An estimated 2.5 to 3 billion people worldwide rely on biomass fuels to meet their
household energy needs. Burning wood, animal dung, or crop wastes in simple stoves …

About three billion people meet their household energy needs with wood and other solid
fuels. In recent years epidemiologists have come to view indoor air pollution from poorly …

Breathing polluted air is a risk to respiratory conditions. During the Greek financial crisis, the
use of household fireplaces/wood stoves shifted from mostly decorative to actual domestic …

Indoor air pollution is an environmental health challenge in Kenya, particularly in rural
households, and low-income urban areas. This review aims to provide an overview of the …

Background Household air pollution from cooking with solid fuels affects nearly 3 billion
people worldwide and is responsible for an estimated 2.5 million premature deaths and 77 …

Solid fuels are a major source of indoor air pollution, but in less developed countries the
short-term health effects of indoor air pollution are poorly understood. The authors …

Lab Residential Building Systems team. But in the absence of well-designed ventilation,
tightening homes can also mean trapping pollutants from a variety of interior sources …

It is estimated that up to half of the world's population burns biomass fuel (wood, crop
residues, animal dung and coal) for indoor uses such as cooking, lighting and heating. As a …

Traditional energy technologies and consumer products contribute to household well-being
in diverse ways but also often harm household air quality. We review the problem of …

Household use of unprocessed solid fuels (wood, dung, crop residues/grasses, and coal) for
cooking and heating exposes large proportions of people in developing countries to high …