Firewood Cooking Causes Lots Of Pollution

sciencedaily.com — Firewood - the main fuel for cook-stoves in the developing world produces 800,000 metric tons of soot each year. 400 million of these stoves are used daily for cooking and heating by more than 2 billion people. The dark, sooty particles have a climate warming effect because they absorb solar energy and heat the atmosphere. It’s a poverty issue. Oct 25, 2006 View in Crawl 4