Smoke gets in your eyes - and forms cataracts

The oxidising property of cigarette and chulha smoke is one of the factors being linked by researchers to the formation of eye cataract.

Cool reception to ambitious programme

Though the government boasts its improved chulha project has exceeded targets, officials admit the programme has been a failure because of lack …

Bhil traditions wither away with their trees

So dependent are the Bhils on trees, deforestation is eroding the very roots of their culture

Cooking made easy

Addressing indoor pollution and climate change with fuel-efficient cook stoves

A simple measure carried out by our organisation has helped to kill two birds with one stone

How indoor pollution affects women & children

One statistic says that children have carbon monoxide levels similar to those that would result from smoking about seven cigarettes per day

Improved hearths

Book>> Cleaner Hearths, Better Homes: New Stoves For India And The Developing World • Douglas F Barnes, Priti Kumar, Keith Openshaw &…

Making science, technology serve the people

For R S Hegde, a primary school principal and rural technologist, science is useless if it remains confined to labs and libraries.

Factsheet: Black carbon - A short-lived climate forcer

Black carbon is a component of soot, released during combustion, particularly incomplete combustion of fossil fuels or biomass. It is released …

Less fuel, less smoke but more jaggery

Sugarcane farmers in rural Karnataka are making jaggery using an efficient and smoke-free stove designed and promoted by a school headmaster.

Remembering Kirk R Smith (1947-2020)

Kirk leaves us with the power of imagining change and hope 

Is the government's Ujjwala target achievable?

The ambit of the Ujjwala scheme is to be increased from five crore to eight crore beneficiaries

Why indoor pollution is as deadly as its outdoor counterpart

With the continual improvement in our quality of life, indoor air quality has become an important area of concern in the 21st century

Post-COVID clean cooking schemes: Beyond financial barriers in rural households

Beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana availed 1.62 refills in the first 5 months of COVID-19 pandemic against 3 free refills …

Post-COVID clean cooking schemes: By and for women

Clean cooking schemes designed with women at their centre will help India maintain its progress towards abatement of indoor air quality and help …

Improved stove: a misnomer?

Some emit more black carbon than traditional mud stoves

Cooking stoves in carbon trade

Improved stoves will be standardized for fuel and emission efficiency

Silent threat

Studies show modern kitchen is not as safe as believed. Use of exhausts, effective ventilation can reduce household pollution

Up in smoke

National programme on improved chulhas put on ice

Partneship for Clean Indoor Air looking for Indian partners

Search for a good hearth

While cook stoves in India are becoming fuel-efficient, they are not improving air quality, finds study

Wake up and smell the air

The challenge of the chulha

The chulha politics

Of stoves, kilns and a fine distinction between emissions

In the second week of March, activists, academics, policy-makers and experts in various fields came together in Delhi to throw light on the …