Burning wood emits more than fossil fuels. Here’s how to build a better fire.

In 50 years, my father-in-law has never run out of wood. Since building a wood-heated cabin in Maine in the early 1970s, he ...
Oregonian

Efforts to decrease wood burning in Portland not exactly catching fire

They produce more harmful particulate matter than diesel trucks and cigarette smoke. They release carbon dioxide and toxic chemicals that can lead to dire health and climate outcomes. Yet efforts to ...
Grist

What’s worse than burning coal? Burning wood

In its scramble for new and clean energy sources, the U.S. government is failing to see the forest for the burning trees. The burning of biomass to produce electricity is marketed as clean and ...
Forbes

Wood Burning Linked To Nearly 2,500 U.K. Deaths A Year, Study Finds

This photograph taken in Saint-Evarzec, western France, December 14, 2022 shows a log burning in a fireplace. (Photo by FRED TANNEAU / AFP) (Photo by FRED TANNEAU/AFP via Getty Images) Air pollution ...
Climate Central

Study Downgrades Climate Impact of Wood Burning

Surprising new research has sharply downgraded the perceived climate impacts of the gathering and burning of wood by residents of poor and developing countries who rely on the fuel to keep warm and ...
Mongabay

Study: Burning wood pellets for energy endangers local communities’ health

A new peer-reviewed study quantifies broadly for the first time the air pollution and public health impacts across the United States from both manufacturing wood pellets and burning them for energy.
WESH

Cocoa father dies from dangerous wood burning craft he learned online

IT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. THE SISTER OF A COCO MAN KILLED LAST SUMMER HAS A WARNING ABOUT HOW HE DIED. IT HAPPENED WHILE HE USED ELECTRICITY TO BURN DESIGNS INTO WOOD. THAT’S RIGHT. THIS PROCESS ...