Uzbekistan: Heating Calamity Revives Art Of Burning Dung

(Eurasianet) -- The problem with dung is that it doesn’t burn like coal, Mavjuda Usmanova explained. The heat lingers only briefly. 

“Maximum, you get half an hour. So you need to throw on the dung often,” said Usmanova, 59, who lives in Turtogayni, a village in Uzbekistan’s Kashkadarya region. “At night, I get up...