Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy.

Fireplace cleaning logs often sound like a too-good-to-be-true solution. Toss one into the fire, burn it like a regular log, and let chemistry handle the mess in your chimney. But do fireplace ...

Fireplace cleaning logs, sometimes called creosote-sweeping logs, are designed to reduce certain types of creosote buildup, the oily substance from wood, in your chimney. When burned, these logs ...