Local homeowners who heat using wood stoves and fireplaces have an opportunity to receive money to clean up their indoor and outdoor air. This is done through the Southwest Clean Air Agency (SWCAA) ...

Amid rising gas and electricity costs, many people are looking for creative ways to stay warm without hefty bills or ...

People who have burn wood in fireplaces and stoves in their homes have reduced lung performance compared to people who don't, new research shows. Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa Burning wood indoors could ...

INDOOR wood burning is increasingly linked to declining lung function, with new findings suggesting a rising public health threat in Europe. Researchers used large-scale longitudinal and ...

Using a wood or coal burning stove or open fire at home may lead to a decline in lung function, suggests a new analysis from UCL researchers. The study, presented at the European Respiratory Society ...

Burning wood indoors could cause damage akin to cigarette smoke, researchers have warned, after a new study linked the growing popularity of domestic wood burning to lung damage. Wood burning stoves ...

'Research in other parts of the world, where traditional wood burning is used in the home, has shown that this is harmful and causes asthma, COPD and lung cancer.' Burning wood indoors could cause ...

Using a wood burning stove at home can lead to a decline in lung function, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam, the Netherlands [1]. The study was ...

Burning wood indoors could cause damage in a similar way to cigarette smoke, researchers have warned, after a new study linked the growing popularity of domestic wood burning to lung damage. Wood ...

The study, presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam, showed those who used wood stoves lost lung capacity more quickly than non-users – even though they tended to be ...