Improved cookstoves emit more ultrafine particles than conventional stoves, finds new study

Graphical abstract. Credit: Science of The Total Environment (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163747

Improved cookstoves, which are widely used for cooking in developing countries, produce twice as many harmful ultrafine air pollution particles (PM_0.1) as conventional stoves, according to a new study from the University of Surrey.

Researchers from Surrey’s Global Center for Clean Air Research…