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A coal burning stove in a village outside of Beijing blazes hot.
A coal burning stove in a village outside of Beijing blazes hot. Roughly 700 million people, more than twice the population of the United States, living in rural areas of China, burn straw, rice husks, corn husks, corn cobs, wood or coal with varying impacts on the environment. Abigail Watrous of the University of Colorado in Boulder studied alternative energy sources as an EAPSI participant in China.
Credit: Abigail Watrous, University of Colorado at Boulder
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