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Published online 31 March 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050328-7
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Charcoal fuel gets green light
Africa will win environmental and health benefits if it stops burning wood.
A shift from burning wood to burning charcoal in African households could save millions of lives and substantially reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, say US researchers.
If current trends in fuel use in sub-Saharan Africa continue, the number of premature deaths among women and young children exposed to wood smoke from stoves will reach nearly 10 million by 2030, from about 400,000 in 2000.
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