Trees are our only livelihood

Meghalaya's west Khasi hills. He shares with Centre for Science and Environment media fellow P Madhavan his experience of the charcoal trade

Championing charcoal

Over wood as cooking fuel

Sri Lanka firm accuses foreign company of stealing technology

Simply Put: Zero emission house

Drought forces Egyptians into felling trees

Why efforts to clean up charcoal production in sub-Saharan Africa aren’t working

The average person in sub-Saharan Africa consumes 0.69 cubic metres of charcoal per year, 2.5 times more than the amount of wood fuel an average …

Growing appetite for charcoal destroying Nigeria's tropical forests

The top producer of crude oil in Africa is exporting cheaply made charcoal to the world, especially EU, which is often labelled incorrectly as '…

Deforestation rampant in Malawi as residents chop forests to produce charcoal for fuel

Charcoal trade has emerged as a viable means of livelihood for the power-starved villagers

Friendly fires

Forest fires can actually lead to enrichment of soil and enhanced growth of vegetation

Biocharcoal helps check global warming

12 million people have no cooking arrangements in India, says study

 According to the report, the situation has worsened over the years    

The energy divide

Chronic power deprivation in some districts raises serious policy issues

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Africa’s energy poverty: How energy crisis is gripping Malawi

Country still dependent on unclean fuel like firewood, charcoal that is estimated to cause 13,000 deaths a year