There’s no heat like wood heat. Talk to people who have wood-burning stoves and that’s what you’ll hear time and again. “It’s comfortable heat,” says Bert Beatty of Paxico, Kan. “It warms your bones.” ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Where there’s smoke there’s ire. This week the UK’s department for the environment warned on worsening air ...