Celebrated as the most significant festival in Hindu culture, Diwali is a day eagerly anticipated by many. This festival ...

It sounds strange. How can soccer balls possibly eliminate the need for fume-filled kerosene lamps in developing countries? With the sOccket–a soccer ball developed by a group of Harvard students. The ...

There's no shortage of portable lighting options out there for campers or people living in developing countries, but they all have their own pros and cons. The Lumir K lamp is aiming to be the right ...

A London design consultancy has developed a cheap, clean, and safer alternative to the kerosene lamp. Kerosene burning lamps are thought to be used by over a billion people in developing nations, ...

My Oct. 5 post, “The Kerosene Lamp”, received reader comments that deserve sharing. Who in this era of ultra-dark-defying ...

CORRECTIONS: This story was updated on Dec. 4, 2012, to provide the correct unit of measure for the black carbon emissions: gigagrams, not gigatons. The story was updated on Nov. 30, 2012, to explain ...

I feel nostalgic as I recall the time I spent studying under oil lamps and lanterns in the 1960s and 70s and how my generation struggled to complete school education in the dim lights of kerosene ...

Celebrating Deepavali is not just about the victory of good over evil, but one that focuses on aspects of cleanliness, ...

Brett Tracy isn’t just living in the past, he’s basking in its glow. If you stroll past the artist’s home in the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood at night, you might see the warm flicker of lanterns in the ...

When the sun goes down over large swathes of the developing world, the 1.3 billion people currently living without access to an electricity connection are plunged into darkness. According to figures ...