Berkeley Lab Makes Cookstoves for Ethiopia
What does the European Climate Exchange in London have to do with the rural Yaya Gulelle district in Ethiopia? Everything—if all goes well in some test chambers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...
View ArticleBerkeley Lab study assesses residential cooking exhaust hoods’ ability to...
Cooking exhaust hoods designed for home kitchens vary widely in their ability to capture and vent away the air pollutants generated by the gas burners on cook stoves, according to a study by two...
View ArticleHazy Days: Berkeley Lab Tackles Pollution in Mongolia
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are known for designing high-efficiency cookstoves for Darfur and Ethiopia. Now they are applying their expertise to the windswept...
View ArticleHidden Dangers in the Air We Breathe
For decades, no one worried much about the air quality inside people’s homes unless there was secondhand smoke or radon present. Then scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory made the...
View ArticlePollution in the Home: Kitchens Can Produce Hazardous Levels of Indoor...
Berkeley Lab indoor air researchers have found hazardous levels of nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide in a surprisingly large portion of California home kitchens. What’s more, their studies have...
View ArticleStill a Lot to Learn About India’s Deadly Air Pollution
What exactly is the relationship between exposure to air pollution and its effect on human health? How much cleaner would the air have to be to reduce the health burden of dirty air? Can cities be...
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