Although considered by most to be a low-cost method of heating a room, traditional, open-masonry fireplaces create the reverse affect on the rest of your home. (Staff-Shot) Q. I am renovating my home ...

Residential wood burning accounts for about a quarter of fine particulate emissions in the Metro Vancouver region, says Metro Vancouver's Esther Bérubé. svetikd / Getty Images Metro Vancouver is ...

Studies and monitoring have found that indoor residential wood burning is responsible for more than a quarter of the harmful fine particle emissions in the Metro Vancouver region — more than twice as ...

LOS ANGELES — A ban on indoor and outdoor wood burning in much of Southern California has been extended through Friday due to a forecast of high air pollution in the area, air quality regulators said.

Nothing beats a warm fire on a cold winter day, especially when you are burning firewood you cut, stacked and stoked yourself. As homesteaders surpassing year five, we know a thing or two about ...

“In developed countries there are still a limited number of studies where personal and indoor determinants of wood burning are studied,” Taina Siponen, of the National Institute for Health and Welfare ...

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

It’s elemental, the attraction to fire, with its dynamic, shape-shifting flames and warmth. This is why homebuyers are so enamored — like moths to a flame, so to speak — to fireplaces, which often ...