DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- When it's cold outside many of us may resort to using supplemental heat like a space heater to stay warm. Fire departments don't discourage it, however, they emphatically ...

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This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. Each year, as temperatures drop, the same promises resurface. A ...

Starting next fall, wood-burning devices will be forbidden in newly constructed homes built in the Bay Area under new rules adopted by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Absent from the ...

What Is a Rocket Mass Heater? First, let me just start off by saying that as a full-time resident of a very rural community in hardiness Zone 3b, heat is a priority for me — a big one. However, as a ...

FOREST ACRES, S.C. — A proposed ordinance would ban outdoor wood-burning furnaces in Forest Acres. Supporters believe the devices pose health hazards, while others say this action by city council is ...

SAN FRANCISCO >> Wood-burning heaters — including modern pollution-fighting woodstoves — will not be permitted in new homes built in the Bay Area starting next fall, as part of a first-in-the-nation ...

When many people think of wood-burning stoves, the chances are that they imagine bulky cast-iron boxes, smoky chimneys and soot-blackened glass. The models that were a mainstay of old cottages and ...

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It seems that even wood isn’t green or renewable enough anymore. The EPA has recently banned the production and sale of 80 percent of America’s current wood-burning stoves, the oldest heating method ...

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