Antique oil lamp identification can be a bit tricky, considering there are many reproduction antique lamps on the market. The thing is, a genuine antique oil lamp can sometimes be quite valuable, so ...

When the sun goes down over large swathes of the developing world, the 1.3 billion people currently living without access to an electricity connection are plunged into darkness. According to figures ...

There's no shortage of portable lighting options out there for campers or people living in developing countries, but they all have their own pros and cons. The Lumir K lamp is aiming to be the right ...

A London design consultancy has developed a cheap, clean, and safer alternative to the kerosene lamp. Kerosene burning lamps are thought to be used by over a billion people in developing nations, ...

A San Francisco-based company with plans to help the developing world snuff out its kerosene-burning lamps and replace them with cheap, solar-powered LEDs and compact fluorescents has finally unveiled ...

In West Africa, where three-quarters of the population lives without electricity, households spend as much as 20 percent of their budget on kerosene, a combustible fuel burned for lighting. Not only ...

Getting cozy around a campfire is iconic and nostalgic, but if you don't have a fire pit or don't want to leave your home, there's no reason you have to miss out on the magic of an open flame.

Nokero, a Hong Kong-based company, has debuted the world’s first solar-powered LED lightbulb. Costing $15, the Nokero N100 has kerosene lamps in its sights but, at $15 a pop (although that drops to ...

When darkness came, so did the smoke. Hamna Silima Nyange, like half of the 2 million people in Tanzania's semi-autonomous ...

Brett Tracy isn’t just living in the past, he’s basking in its glow. If you stroll past the artist’s home in the Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood at night, you might see the warm flicker of lanterns in the ...