Each year indoor air pollution, caused in part by cookstoves, is a key factor in the deaths of two million children from acute respiratory infections in developing countries. Since 2006, Stanford researchers have been working in Bangladesh to find practical, low-cost incentives that would encourage people to use cleaner, safer cookstoves.

Tagged: Environmental Research, pollution, Environment & Sustainability, International Issues, Engineering, Medicine

Each increase of one degree Celsius caused by carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would lead to about 1,000 additional deaths annually in the United States alone, according to a new study. The work, by Mark Jacobson, Stanford professor of civil and environmental engineering, is the first to show a direct link between an increase in CO2 levels and resulting air pollution and an increase in human mortality.

Tagged: conservation, mortality, pollution, Environment & Sustainability, Human Health, Engineering