NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Indian social enterprise start-up is helping people living in urban slums to use clean energy by changing their kerosene lamps for solar lanterns and wood ...

Many households in impoverished regions around the world are starting to shift away from inefficient and polluting fuel-based lighting -- such as candles, firewood, and kerosene lanterns -- to ...

In West Africa, where three-quarters of the population lives without electricity, households spend as much as 20 percent of their budget on kerosene, a combustible fuel burned for lighting. Not only ...

An estimated 110 million homes in Africa don’t have access to electricity—a figure that is forecast to grow to 250 million by 2020. These households and towns rely on kerosene lanterns to provide ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI - In the depths of the Michigan winter, it’s easy to lose track of the light. But after the sun sets in the Waterloo Recreation Area, parks officials are lighting up the way with ...

BOSTON, Sept. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- A young man who graduated from Harvard, Columbia and Cambridge Universities, despite having studied with kerosene lanterns in rural Ghana, walking several miles ...