Smoke and health in Nepal: Healthier home heating

In the winter, the people of Gatlang, in the high hills of the Rasuwa district of Nepal, are dependent on their kitchen stove for heating as well as cooking. However these stoves, fuelled mostly by pine wood, emit much dangerous smoke leading to health and respiratory problems, especially among women and children. Across the world smoke from kitchen fires kills 1.5 million people every year.