MARACAY, Venezuela, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Endy Perez for years started her day by turning on the stove of her small house in the Venezuelan city of Maracay. These days, her breakfast routine begins with ...

Turns out firewood isn’t just bad for the environment. There’s a straightforward, yet relatively unexplored link between collecting firewood and violence against women. In refugee camps in regions ...

‘’For years we have used the traditional three stone cooking stove. This type of stove consumed a lot of firewood up to 3000 pieces of firewood per week. Students had to spend hours looking for ...

Jaqueline de Oliveira, a single mother in Itamaraju, in the northeastern state of Bahia, has been cooking over a wood or charcoal fire during the past six months. Unemployed and raising four children ...

In the concluding part of his series, CHINAKA OKORO writes that collaboration of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) with the Federal Government will bring about the needed respite. Realising that ...

Some residents of the South East Zone of the country have vowed to resort to firewood and charcoal if prices of cooking gas continue to soar. The consumers told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Piles of firewood surrounded Jane Muthoni in her kitchen made of iron sheets. The roof, walls and wooden pillars were covered in soot. As she blew on the flame for tea, the ...