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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Diwali: India celebrates festival of lights with oil lamp world record - Air quality worsens in the capital Delhi as India ...

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

A record 2.6 million lamps were lit in the northern Indian temple town of Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, on Sunday ahead of Diwali, ...

A 600-year-old porcelain lamp unearthed in Shanxi province in 2021 has turned the spotlight on the technical skills and ...

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 ...