In Nairobi’s Kibera and New Delhi’s Bhalswa, families are abandoning LPG for charcoal and firewood due to soaring prices linked to the Iran war.
This shift threatens years of progress in promoting cleaner fuels, increases deforestation, and places greater burdens on women and girls who must spend more time collecting fuel.
Conservation efforts are at risk as tourism revenue falls, poaching rises, and field operations are hampered by high fuel costs, undermining protection of forests and wildlife habitats.
How does a fuel crisis in Nairobi lead to increased wildlife poaching in rural Kenya?
India gave millions free gas connections, so why are women still cooking with firewood?
When families cannot afford clean fuel, how does it silently harm a child's brain development?
Beyond cooking, how is the energy shock creating a hidden fertilizer crisis for the world's farmers?
Amid an energy crisis, why are some nations tripling fossil fuel subsidies instead of funding renewables?
How has the Iran war turned Africa’s forests from a carbon sink into a carbon emitter?