Hearths on fire: UK residents incensed by pollution from wood burners
(WorldNews Environment)

If you`re looking to perfect your rural idyll, you can`t go wrong with a wood burner. A mainstay of glamorous Instagram “cottagecore” accounts and Airbnb listings with a cachet somewhere between an Aga and a yurt, they produce a mood of peace and warmth that glows as softly as their embers. But lately, some of their owners have ascended the temperature scale from cosy to hot and bothered – and so have their neighbours. With the sale of smoky wet wood and bags of house coal banned from 1 May, two government reports this week painted a damning picture of domestic wood burning`s contribution to small particle air pollution. They suggested that in 2019, closed and open fires were now responsible...