Choosing the best firewood to burn in your home fireplace comes down to wood type and factors like its heat output, its dryness, its source, and, of course, cost. When you see signs for firewood for ...

Home fireplaces and wood stoves are quietly driving a large share of winter air pollution, even though only a small number of households rely on wood heat. Researchers found that wood smoke accounts ...

Throwing another log into a crackling fireplace on a cold winter’s night might seem like a cozy, harmless tradition. But Northwestern University scientists have found residential wood burning is a ...

A new peer-reviewed study quantifies broadly for the first time the air pollution and public health impacts across the United States from both manufacturing wood pellets and burning them for energy.

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 ...

They produce more harmful particulate matter than diesel trucks and cigarette smoke. They release carbon dioxide and toxic chemicals that can lead to dire health and climate outcomes. Yet efforts to ...

Throwing another log into a crackling fireplace on a cold winter's night might seem like a cozy, harmless tradition. But Northwestern University scientists have found residential wood burning is a ...

Residential wood burning is a major but underrecognized source of wintertime PM2.5 air pollution, disproportionately harming urban communities and people of color despite relatively low wood use.