Smoke emitting from the traditional cookstove widely used in the rural parts of India with cheap biofuels -- such as crop chaff or dung -- causes detrimental impact on the country's environment and people's health finds a study led by one of Indian-origin professors. The findings showed that the traditional cookstove may be producing much higher levels of particulate emissions than earlier thought. 'Our project findings quantitatively show that particulate emissions from cookstoves in India have been underestimated' said Rajan Chakrabarty Assistant Professor at the Washington University in St. Louis. In some cases more than twice the emission levels were
