Kerosene heaters led to the cliche “burning the midnight oil.” Before electric lights became common, oil lamps were really the only option for illumination after dark—but these weren’t terribly ...

Kerosene lamps provide ambience from an earlier century. They serve as a light source safer and more powerful than an open candlestick. In the past, they were used on trains and horse-drawn carriages.

It sounds strange. How can soccer balls possibly eliminate the need for fume-filled kerosene lamps in developing countries? With the sOccket–a soccer ball developed by a group of Harvard students. The ...

When the sun goes down over large swathes of the developing world, the 1.3 billion people currently living without access to an electricity connection are plunged into darkness. According to figures ...

CORRECTIONS: This story was updated on Dec. 4, 2012, to provide the correct unit of measure for the black carbon emissions: gigagrams, not gigatons. The story was updated on Nov. 30, 2012, to explain ...

A lamp which produces high quality light and doubles up as a device to cook food without causing pollution has been invented by a team of engineers in Maharashtra. A lamp which produces high quality ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The small kerosene lamps that light millions of homes in developing countries have a dark side: black carbon – fine particles of soot released into the atmosphere. New measurements ...

Getting cozy around a campfire is iconic and nostalgic, but if you don't have a fire pit or don't want to leave your home, there's no reason you have to miss out on the magic of an open flame.

Exposure to black carbon particles is 81% higher among Mozambican women who use kerosene as the main source of energy for lighting compared to those who use electricity. This was the main finding of a ...

As a young child, Virginia McLaurin remembers seeing and admiring this oil lamp in her grandparents’ home in Cheraw, South Carolina. Her grandparents lived in a log house which they built themselves ...

Kerosene lamps, the primary source of light for more than a billion people in developing nations, churns out black carbon at levels previously overlooked in greenhouse gas estimates, according to a ...