Fairbanks area, trying to stay warm, chokes on wood stove pollution
Saturday, February 16, 2013 - 21:30
in Earth & Climate
Wood-burning stoves give the Fairbanks, Alaska, area some of the worst winter air pollution in the country.NORTH POLE, Alaska — In Krystal Francesco's neighborhood, known here as the "rectangle of death," the air pollution recently was so thick she could hardly see across the street. Wood stoves were cranking all over town — it was 40 below zero — and she had to take her daughter to the emergency room.