'Improved' Cookstoves May Do Little to Reduce Harmful Indoor Emissions
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - 17:20
in Earth & Climate
TOTORABAMBA, Peru – Smoke swirls around the hearth and hangs in the sunny doorway of the adobe kitchen where Espirita Lima Bautista crouches by an open fire, toasting barley grains. Soot dangles from the thatch roof in six-inch stalactites, a grim reminder of the particles she inhales whenever she cooks. [More]