SEIYHAMA, NAGALAND, INDIA - 2009/12/08: Naga woman Kevisienuo, age 50, cooks with Naga chilies in her home with one of her children strapped to her back. Her husband is a chile farmer. A basket of the ...

Billions of people around the world still cook inside over open fires. They burn dung, wood and charcoal to fuel the flames, clouding their homes with toxic fumes. For activists and entrepreneurs, ...

The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves announced today that Ghanaian football legend Stephen Appiah will become the Alliance’s newest Ambassador. Appiah will join a distinguished group of current ...

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) today announced that it is a Founding Partner of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. The Alliance, convened by the United Nations Foundation, is a private-public ...

One of the most talked-about public-health initiatives is improving indoor air quality in the rural developing world. Traditional cookstoves — mud basins in which villagers burn wood, charcoal or dung ...

This post is written by Jacob Moss, Director of the US Cookstoves Initiative in the Secretary of State’s Office of Global Partnerships at the US Department of State. For much of the developing world, ...

This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Lisa Stiffler on Jul 12 ...

Ceramic cookstoves in sub-Saharan Africa are proving effective at easing some health symptoms associated with inhalation of smoke and other pollutants from traditional cooking fires. But a key metric ...