Indoor Air Pollution: Turning Kitchens Into Death Traps

It might shock you to hear that the environmental problem causing more deaths than malaria and HIV is, in fact, indoor air pollution.

According to a new study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, indoor air pollution kills between 3.5 and 4.3 million people worldwide every year.

Almost all of these deaths occur in poor countries where people’s living quarters are generally very small, with no access to electricity. A lack of electricity forces people living in these circumstances to burn coal, wood and even animal dung to produce the fire they need to cook food and heat their homes in …read more