Spotlight: Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
Studying effects of cookstoves on air, disease
A three-year study by the
National Center for Atmospheric Research will use newly-developed air-quality
sensors to help gauge the effects of traditional cooking methods -- and the
accompanying smoke -- on the health of Ghanaians. "Given that an estimated
3 billion people worldwide are cooking over fire and smoke, we need to better
understand how these pollutants are affecting public health as well as regional
air quality and even the climate," said Christine Wiedinmyer, who is
leading the study. PhysOrg.com (11/1)In their own words: Women and clean cookstoves
The documentary film series "Black Inside -- Three Women's Voices," spotlights three women -- in Kenya, India and Peru -- and a look at their lives, in their own words, through the filter of traditional cookstoves. Replacing them with cleaner-burning stoves can be a matter of life and death. Women News Network (11/5)
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