Indigenous White Karen (Kayin) hill tribe villager cooking at a traditional stove in a mountain village near Doi Inthanon, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

British Research Base W, abandoned and left in 1959 on Detaille Island, Crystal Sound, below the Antarctic Circle, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Pataxo Indian woman making food at the Reserva Indigena da Jaqueira near Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil, South America

Indigenous White Karen (Kayin) hill tribe villager cooking at a traditional stove in a mountain village near Doi Inthanon, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

A young woman boils water for coffee in the early morning light while camping in Samburu National Park, Kenya,East Africa, Africa

Stove glazed clay tile from late 15th century, National Museum, Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe

A young woman observes the early morning light while camping in Samburu National Park, Kenya, East Africa, Africa

Stove glazed clay tile from late 15th century, National Museum, Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe

Hot pot cooking on stove, Fuzi Miao area, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Asia

Purple stove-pipe sponge (Aplysina archeri), with boat in background, Curacao.

Cooking over a camp stove near Balnakeil Bay, Sutherland, Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom

Woman frying tiny chickpea and quails egg fritters on a street market food stall in Pyin Oo Lwyn, Mandalay Division, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Woman frying rice pancakes with fillings on a street market fast food stall in Pyin Oo Lwyn, Mandalay Division, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Hiker cooking food on camping stove high up above Oeschinensee lake, Bernese Oberland, Kandersteg, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Europe

Man preparing candies, Mardin bazaar, Turkey, Asia Minor, Asia

Village life, pakistan. Woman cooking food in a stove in a punjabi village

Hot Coffee on wood fire in a traditional pot, Keren, Eritrea, Africa

Woman cooking at Kidang Mas Batik House, Lasem, Java island, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Woman tasting a dish in her kitchen in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa

Hiker man with tent using camping stove on ridge above lake Limmernsee, Canton of Glarus, Switzerland, Europe

A local lunch being prepared in front of guests, Madaba, Jordan, Middle East

Kurtoskalacs (chimney cake) (stove cake) cooking over coals, Budapest, Hungary, Europe

Cooking stove in interior of a Navajo dwelling in which three interlocking pinuon pine trunks support conical stack of mud covered logs, Arizona, United States of America, North America

Eastern bread baked in outdoor communal oven, Olymbos (Olimbos), Karpathos, Dodecanese islands, Greece, Mediterranean, Europe

Greek woman baking bread in outdoor communal oven, Olymbos (Olimbos), Karpathos, Dodecanese islands, Mediterranean, Europe

Greek woman baking bread in outdoors communal oven, Olymbos, Karpathos, Dodecanese islands, Greece, Mediterranean, Europe

Cockerel and hens at historic cottage of Dan O'Hara, evicted by the British and forced to emigrate, Connemara, County Galway

Historic cottage of Dan O'Hara, evicted by the British and forced to emigrate, by Twelve Bens Mountains, Connemara, Ireland

A ceramic stove ordered by Marshall de Saxe in the 18th century to keep the lower rooms warm in the Chateau de Chambord, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France, Europe

A woman cooking on a fuel efficient stove inside a traditional mud hut kitchen, Uganda, Africa

A woman cooking on a fuel efficient stove inside a traditional mud hut kitchen, Uganda, Africa

Stove and cot in living room of traditional house, Vlkolinec village, UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Velka Fatra Mountains, Vlkolinec, Velka Fatra, Slovakia, Europe

French onion tarts and oven, France, Europe

Majolica stoves inside the Hohensalzburg Fortress, Salzburg, Austria, Europe

Smoke from chimney as stove is fired up inside a buried stone hut, Rondane National Park, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Local woman preparing tea in a huge kettle, Mandalay, Myanmar, Southeast Asia

Smoke hole and doorway in Navaho (Navajo) dwelling of mud covered pinyon pine logs, Arizona, United States of America (U.S.A.), North America

Woman in her kitchen, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan state, India, Asia

Colombia jasmine abufe grilling fish on a woodstove in her house beside the rio magdalena, barrancabermeja

Tagines cooking on a cafe stove in Marrakech, Morocco, North Africa, Africa

Uganda cooking matoke, steamed bananas, the staple diet, on a large open fire for a feast day. kangulumira, kayunga district

Fiji paulini mateyawa, 23, in kitchen, qelena village, taveuni photo by sean sprague

A stove at the old British Antarctic Survey station on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands off the Antarctic Peninsular which is an active volcanic caldera. It was abandoned in 1967 when it was over run by a volcanic eruption.

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows a cook preparing chapatis on a biofuel stove.

Chile. Mapuche woman heating water in her kitchen, temuco

Burundi agakura, a youth agricultural project in gitera. Preparing food at the main kitchen.

India - women - labor: woman cooking rice, pinkulam, kerala

Villagers cooking a meal, mattappatty, tamil nadu

An integral kettle stove used for boiling water by burning old corn husks in northern China, Asia

Pine cones burning on a wood burning stove, to provide heat in a house

Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) rostrum detail showing the tubercles ("stove bolts") near the Gorda Banks in the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), Baja California Sur, Mexico

A Chinese family cooks on a stove fuelled by dried corn stalks and husks which not only cooks the food and heats the water but also heats the house, Heilongjiang province, China, Asia

Fire oven at Estancia Mimosa, Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, South America

Patterns in carbon on the fire glass of a stove door

Boiling a kettle on a wood burning stove is a carbon neutral way of heating, United Kingdom, Europe

A Chinese family cooks on a stove fuelled by dried corn stalks and husks which not only cooks the food and heats the water but also heats the house, Heilongjiang province, China, Asia

A peasant farmer gathers dried corn husks to burn as fuel on the kitchen stove which not only cooks the food and heats the water but also heats the house, Heilongjiang province, China, Asia

A traditional kitchen stove fuelled mainly by dried mazie stalks, also heats the sleeping platforms in the two roomed peasant farmer's house in northern China, Asia

A gas cooker, United Kingdom, Europe

Carbon patterns on fire glass of a wood burning stove

A Chinese family cooks on a stove fuelled by dried corn stalks and husks which not only cooks the food and heats the water but also heats the house, Heilongjiang province, China, Asia

Patterns in carbon on the fire glass of a stove door

Fish grilling over campfire with dutch oven

Oven outdoors in garden

Hispanic woman holding cake in pan with oven mitts

Potato and chicken casserole baking in oven

Caucasian woman kneading dough on cutting board near stove

Caucasian man steaming food on stove

Caucasian woman sitting on counter heating pot on stove

Traditional indigenous kitchen

Black man holding cutting board cooking on stove

Onions cooking in pan on stove

food at an Afghan hospital

Afghan refugees preparing a potatoe meal, Afghanistan

Afghan boy in front of a stove

Afghan refugees preparing a potatoe meal, Afghanistan

Afghan refugees preparing a potatoe meal, Afghanistan

Interior view of a traditional kitchen in an old timber farmhouse, Chengkan near Huangshan, Anui, China, Asia

Oven with Kebap at the restaurant, Bodrum, Turkey

Frankfurter Goethe Haus, view from the Gemaeldekabinett towards the Zimmer der Frau Rat, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany, Europe

tasty German bread ibeing taken out of the oven, Vellberg, Schwaebisch Hall, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Young man cooking with a camp stove at a lake, Freilassing, Bavaria, Germany

The Lovo underground furnace opens to passengers of cruise ship MV Reef Endeavor (Captain Cook Cruises Fiji) during a nightly village visit, Gunu, Naviti Island, Yasawa Group, Fiji Islands, South Pacific

Oven with Kebap at the restaurant, Bodrum, Turkey

Koniks (wild horses) in the Geltinger Birk, Baltic Sea, nature reserve, Geltinger Birk, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Copra drying in the oven, Malekula, Vanuatu, South Pacific, Oceania

Koniks (wild horses) in the Geltinger Birk, Baltic Sea, nature reserve, Geltinger Birk, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Koniks (wild horses) in the Geltinger Birk, Baltic Sea, nature reserve, Geltinger Birk, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Koniks (wild horses) in the Geltinger Birk, Baltic Sea, nature reserve, Geltinger Birk, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Koniks (wild horses) in the Geltinger Birk, Baltic Sea, nature reserve, Geltinger Birk, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Frankfurter Goethe Haus, view into the Noerdliche Seitenkabinett, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany, Europe

Antique oven, Anticus Fornis in Altamura, Apulia, Italy

Frankfurter Goethe Haus, view from Peking towards the Suedliche Seitenkabinett and the Vorsaal, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany, Europe

Interior view of the restaurant in the evening, Guesthouse Zur Rose, Kurtatsch, South Tyrol, Italy, Europe

Woman removing burning charcoal from oven, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

Koniks (wild horses) in the Geltinger Birk, Baltic Sea, nature reserve, Geltinger Birk, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Koniks (wild horses) in the Geltinger Birk, Baltic Sea, nature reserve, Geltinger Birk, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

A nun heating up the stove in the kitchen of Nunnery Huanting, Heng Shan South, Hunan province, China, Asia

Train conductor, Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, La Plata County, Colorado, USA, North America, America

Two women baking breads, Hefteralm, Chiemgau Alps, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany