Guardian: While the smell of woody fires and a soft smoky haze across some country towns is as welcome a sign of winter arriving as fallen autumn leaves, few realise that domestic solid fuel burning contributes more polluting particulate matter than cars to the atmosphere every year.
Retail sales of wood burners over the past four winters have jumped by 20% across Australia, and record numbers of permits are being issued for domestic wood collection as increasing numbers spend frosty nights by the fire...