Domestic combustion is a major cause of toxic air pollution, and is the biggest source of PM2.5, according to government data. Wood burning was responsible for 22 per cent of PM2.5 in the UK in 2024, ...

Families face the threat of a crackdown on wood-burning stoves after doctors claimed ... s health due to damage to the lungs, heart, brain, and to pregnant women and their unborn children.

A ban on indoor and outdoor wood burning will be in place Friday in much of the Southland due to a forecast of high air pollution in the area. The residential wood-burning ban will be in effect ...

heart and brain health. "On top of this, burning wood produces more carbon dioxide than coal or gas." The group said wood burners were also a more expensive form of heating. Matthew Clark ...