Juan Carlos Munoz / Wood of a tree burnt in a volcanic eruption of Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy

Inaki Relanzon / Firewood transportation on a bicycle, Bago, Myanmar / Burma. August 2009

JIM CLARE / Cooking over fire of endangered Polylepis wood, showing wood store, remote paramo community of La Granja, Azuay, Andes, Southern Ecuador.

Ashley Cooper / Trees in plantation burning in forest fire, Egremont, Cumbria, England, UK, August 2006.

Ashley Cooper / Trees in plantation burning in forest fire, Egremont, Cumbria, England, UK, August 2006.

Ashley Cooper / Solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through...

Ashley Cooper / Log burner used to heat a house

Ashley Cooper / Women carrying heavy loads of fire wood, Annapurna, Himalayas, Nepal, December 2012.

Ashley Cooper / Burning brush wood from a forestry plantation near Egremont, Cumbria, England, UK, August.

Jen Guyton / Traditional homestead with a stone hut and wood-fired stove. Lesotho, southern Africa,

Daniel Heuclin / Mentawai women fishing at night, using burning wood for light to attract fish, Siberut, Sumatra, July 2015

Daniel Heuclin / Mentawai women fishing at night, using burning wood for light to attract fish, Siberut, Sumatra, July 2015

Loic Poidevin / Close up of burning log on wood fire and flames,

Alex Hyde / 'Foxfire' or 'fairy fire', the bioluminescence resulting from fungi present in decaying wood. The fungi contain the enzyme luciferase that emits light when it reacts with luciferin. The bioluminescenc...

Alex Hyde / 'Foxfire' or 'fairy fire', the bioluminescence resulting from fungi present in decaying wood. The fungi contain the enzyme luciferase that emits light when it reacts with luciferin. The bioluminescenc...

Orsolya Haarberg / Charcoal burner arranging a pile of burning wood, Calonda, Harghita, Transylvania, Romania, June 2015.

Erlend Haarberg / Charcoal burner arranging a pile of burning wood, silhouetted in morning light with shadow on smoke, Calonda, Harghita, Transylvania, Romania, June 2015.

Erlend Haarberg / Charcoal burner with dog near a pile of burning wood at dusk, Calonda, Harghita, Transylvania, Romania, June 2015.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Woman carrying fire wood to the village Abu, Canogo Island, Guinea-Bissau, December 2013.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Woman carrying fire wood to the village Abu, Canogo Island, Guinea-Bissau, December 2013.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstr / Fire wood pile, Zabardo, Western Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria, May 2013.

Staffan Widstrand / Woman carrying fire wood, Pulicat Lake, Tamil Nadu, India, January 2013.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Wood of a tree burnt in a volcanic eruption of Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy

Paul Harcourt Davies / Interior of a log fire, Orvieto, Italy, April

Juergen Freund / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) 'Siswi 'holding saw and sawing a piece of firewood. Tanjung Puting National Park, Borneo, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Ernie Janes / Circular log stacks, North Norfolk, UK

Ernie Janes / Circular log stacks, North Norfolk, UK

Jack Dykinga / Wallow forest fire aftermath, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona, USA August 2011

Roland Seitre / Man with axe, returning from gathering fire wood. Ishaqbini Reserve, Kenya, 2009.

Roland Seitre / Man and woman in Ishaqbini Reserve, returning from fetching fire wood. Man carrying axe, woman the wood. Kenya, 2009.

Nick Turner / Log burning stove inside The Plough Inn, Ford, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK, October 2008.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Young Chukchi reindeer herder dragging firewood back to camp on his sled. Chukotskiy Peninsula, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia, spring 2010

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian woman carrying fire wood. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Model release #GA20.

David Woodfall / Effect of fire on old oak tree (Quercus sp) in wood pasture. Romania, October 2010

Philippe Clement / Close-up of Common wall lizard (Podarcis / Lacerta muralis) sunning on burned wood, La Brenne, France

Philippe Clement / Common wall lizard (Podarcis / Lacerta muralis) sunning on burned wood, La Brenne, France

Christophe Courteau / Kalahari bushmen, woman gathering fire wood, Central Kalahari Desert. Botswana, September 2009

Lisa Hoffner / Woman cooking with wood efficient Bindi stove. Dry tropical forest of Colombia, South America

Thomas Lazar / Irregular black burn scorch mark on reddish bark of Giant sequoia tree (Sequoiadendron giganteum) Yosemite National Park, California, USA, June 2008

Patricio Robles Gil / Woman carrying fire wood, Sagarmatha National Park, Khumbu, Himalayas, Nepal, December 2007

Patricio Robles Gil / Local people carrying fire wood, Sagarmatha National Park, Khumbu, Himalayas, Nepal, December 2007

Patricio Robles Gil / People carrying fire wood along mountain path, Sagarmatha National Park, Khumbu, Himalayas, Nepal, December 2007

Tim Laman / Mangrove timber piled up ready for loading into charcoal kiln. Charcoal production near Taiping, Malaysia, where (Rhizophora apiculata) mangrove wood from the Matang Mangroves is used to produce charc...

Tim Laman / Logs stacked near the charcoal kilns. Charcoal production near Taiping, Malaysia, where (Rhizophora apiculata) mangrove wood from the Matang Mangroves is used to produce charcoal using traditional met...

Tim Laman / Worker tending the fire of a charcoal kiln. Charcoal production near Taiping, Malaysia, where (Rhizophora apiculata) mangrove wood from the Matang Mangroves is used to produce charcoal using tradition...

Tim Laman / A charcoal kiln with charcoal under production with mangrove (Rhizophora sp) wood from the Matang mangroves. Taiping vicinity, Perak, Malaysia. May 2006

Colin Monteath / Smog and early winter cloud inversion layer at dawn blankets central city, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Jouan & Rius / Two San Bushmen making fire with two pieces of wood, Bushmanland, Namibia

Philippe Clement / Wood-burning stove in eco house, Belgium

Pete Oxford / Village women carrying dried sticks home for fire wood. Near Ranthambhore, Rajasthan, India, October 2006

Pete Oxford / Children carrying bricks made by digging up surrounding soil, individually moulding the bricks, building kilns and using large quantities of fire wood. Madagascar

Pete Oxford / Child carrying bricks made by digging up surrounding soil, individually moulding the bricks, building kilns and using large quantities of fire wood. Madagascar

Pete Oxford / Woman carrying bricks made by digging up surrounding soil, individually moulding the bricks, building kilns and using large quantities of fire wood. Madagascar 2005

Niall Benvie / Boy in a Norwegian naturbarnehage (nature nursery) gathering fallen wood, Trondheim, Norway, 2006

Jabruson / Camerman Bruce Davidson filming deforestation of Virunga NP by Rwandan Hutu refugees seeking fire wood, Dem Rep of Congo. circa 1994

Jabruson / Bruce Davidson filming Hutu Rwandan refugees collecting fire wood close to Virunga NP, Dem Rep of Congo, circa 1994

Steven Fuller / Photographer's family in wood cabin sprayed with fire retardant foam to protect it from forest fire, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming, USA. 1988

Steven Fuller / Bison beside fire fighter spraying wood cabin with fire retardant foam to protect it from forest fire, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming, USA. 1988

Steven Fuller / Fire fighters spray wood cabin with fire retardant foam to protect it from forest fire, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming, USA. 1988

Steven Fuller / Bison beside fire fighters spraying wood cabin with fire retardant foam to protect it from forest fire, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming, USA. 1988

Steven Fuller / Photographer's family and pet cat with fire fighters discuss protection of wood cabin, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming, USA. 1988

Steven Fuller / Photographer's family at wood cabin sprayed with fire retardant foam to protect it from forest fire, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming, USA. 1988

Steven Fuller / Photographer's family at wood cabin sprayed with fire retardant foam to protect it from forest fire, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming, USA. 1988

Steven Fuller / Photographer's family and pet cat at wood cabin sprayed with fire retardant foam to protect it from forest fire, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming, USA. 1988

Steven Fuller / Photographer's family in wood cabin sprayed with fire retardant foam to protect it from forest fire, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming, USA. 1988

Owen Newman / Jo / Hoan bushman creating fire by turning wood, Bushmanland, Namibia. 1996

Eric Baccega / A Korowai man making fire by rubbing wood with a rattan-string, Western Papuasia, Indonesia. 1999 / 2000. (West Papua).

Toby Sinclair / Women collecting firewood, Maharashtra, India

Toby Sinclair / Women collecting firewood, Maharashtra, India

Jane Burton / Wood burning with flames and glowing embers.

Norbert Wu / Black Anemonefish (Amphiprion melanopus) protected by stinging tentacles of host Bulb Tentacle Sea Anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor), Solomon Islands

Pete Oxford / Forest firewood for sale at wood market, Tamatave, Madagasca

Niall Benvie / Fire damaged pine trees at Dunraven Pass, Yellowstone NP. North America

Benjamin Olson / American Pasqueflower (Anemone patens) emerging after controlled burn, Minnesota

Colin Monteath / Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) watching a Tsataan elder brewing tea over wood fire at camp, Hunkher Mountains, Mongolia

Gary Braasch / Two Indian women cooking over an open wood fire, in their home, Chausali, near Almora, Uttarakhand, India. March, 2012.

Orsolya Haarberg / Two men building a pile of wood for carbonizing, part of charcoal burning process, Varsag, Harghita, Transylvania, Romania. June. Model released.

Orsolya Haarberg / Man standing on pile of smouldering wood, making charcoal, with rainbow in background, Calonda, Harghita, Transylvania, Romania. June. Model released.

Orsolya Haarberg / Man building large pile of wood for making charcoal, Varsag, Harghita, Transylvania, Romania. June. Model released.

Felis Images / Local elderly woman cooking a meal from her family over open fire (with wood from local forest) Abor hills, Arunachal Pradesh, India, December 2019. The locals are also known to construct their hou...

Jack Dykinga / Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) in flower, and Bracken, and charred wood after Wallow forest fire, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona, USA. August.

Jack Dykinga / Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) floweriung amongst charred wood after Wallow forest fire, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona, USA. August.

Karine Aigner / Women and children walking along road carrying fire wood and waving, Democratic Republic of Congo. May 2017.