In a wintertime take on food pantries, some northern New England communities are helping needy families stock their woodstoves instead of their shelves.Just 2 percent of homes nationwide are heated ...

In West Lebanon, New Hampshire, the Woodstock Soapstone Company builds wood-burning stoves. A woodstove is essentially a firebox with a chimney. Installed in a living room, it can heat a home all ...

The number of homes in New Hampshire using wood for heat has more than doubled over the last decade, from 3.8 percent in 2005 to 8.6 percent in 2013. Much of that increase comes from wood pellets.

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

A middle-class battle is brewing between country folk and an apparent city elite - including Londoners - over wood burners after a report branded them Britain's biggest source of dangerous air ...

In this photo taken Wednesday Jan. 8, 2014, stacks of wood are seen at the town transfer station in Hopkinton, N.H. Like a food bank, several communities in northern New England run by church groups, ...

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