It should light easily, burn steadily, and add a pleasantly smoky flavor. Serious Eats / Meredith Butcher Straight to the Point The best lump charcoal is quick to light, burns steadily, and produces ...

In this Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018 photo, Miguel Lander, 56, makes fire inside a mountain made with tree trunks, as part of a process to produce traditional charcoal in Viloria, northern Spain. Only a ...

Kampala, Uganda – The machete-wielding men lodge themselves deep inside forests for weeks at a time, felling trees that will be incinerated into pieces of charcoal. Because they often work at night ...

This saved 400,000 lives per year from lower exposure to 2.5-micron air pollution. Fine-particle pollution causes premature death in people with lung or heart disease and increases sickness. China ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. — Officials with the Montgomery County Fire Department are warning people to never burn charcoal inside their homes after crews found a man using a charcoal grill inside his ...

A prosecutor says a burning charcoal grill caused the deaths of a woman and three children whose bodies were found in a car in upstate New York. Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick ...

A nearly year-long investigation by Mongabay led to a multi-part reporting project into the illegal production and trade of charcoal in Myanmar. One route for charcoal sales from Myanmar to China ...

ELVERSON – Hopewell Furnace invites area residents to attend its annual sheep shearing and spring charcoal burn on Saturday, May 13. Visitors will have the opportunity to observe both 21st- and ...

Hopewell Furnace invites the community to attend its annual sheep shearing and spring charcoal burn on Saturday, May 7. Visitors will have the opportunity to observe both 21st- and 19th-century ...

On November 29, 2025, in Dakahlia, Egypt, a security video captured a mishap involving a man handling burning charcoal for a hookah. In the video, the man was standing in the middle of a gathering ...

Lump charcoal is colloquially favored as a premium or “upgrade” variety of charcoal, thanks to its clean, efficient burn. Unlike manufactured briquettes, which are uniform in shape and size (and may ...

VILORIA, Spain – Even though he receives the occasional helping hand from his 22-year old son, Miguel Lander knows that the days of making charcoal the traditional way are counted in these remote ...