A member of a pro-government Somali militia walks amongst piles of locally-produced charcoal, in the seaside town of Bur Garbo, Somalia. AP KAMPALA, Uganda — The machete-wielding men lodge themselves ...

Close-up of a wood-burning stove in home, Yulin, Shaanxi province, China, 1990. (Photo by Forrest Anderson/Getty Images) Implementing adequate policies to replace wood and charcoal burning stoves ...

No more trees stand around Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, because they have been cut down to make charcoal. The charcoal goes to the city to cook food, creating smoke that pollutes the lungs of ...

BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The widespread use of charcoal for cooking in African cities can cause devastating damage to forests up to 300 km away, scientist Sebastian Rodriguez-Sanchez ...

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Businesses promote pay-as-you-go gas cooking in urban areas, hoping to cut charcoal use, which damages forests and health BARCELONA, Aug 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The widespread use of charcoal ...

KAMPALA, UgandaKAMPALA, Uganda — The machete-wielding men lodge themselves deep inside forests for weeks at a time, felling trees that will be incinerated into pieces of charcoal. Because they often ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The machete-wielding men lodge themselves deep inside forests for weeks at a time, felling trees that will be incinerated into pieces of charcoal. Because they often work at ...