Seventy years ago, a thick smog covered London. The city is no stranger to its bouts of fog, but nothing compared to the Great Smog which descended on London on December 5, 1952. The smoke-like ...

Seventy years ago, a thick smog covered London. The city is no stranger to its bouts of fog, but nothing compared to the Great Smog which descended on London on December 5, 1952. The smoke-like ...

The Great Smog of London — which descended on the capital 70 years ago today — revolutionised our understanding of the health impacts of air pollution, but there is still much work to be done ...

In 1952, a hundred years on from the publication of Bleak House, London was engulfed in just such a peasouper. There was no Dickens on hand to tell the story in The Great Smog (Channel 5 ...

Here are the basics.) The terrible, choking fog had a nickname—the Great Smog. Between December 5 and 9, 1952, the environmental disaster strangled London. It would affect British health—and ...

Smog in London From the 13th century, poor air quality was an issue in London which only worsened as the use of coal and the city itself expanded. Under King James I, restrictions on coal burning ...

In 1952, London was blanketed under a dark cloud of human-made air pollution known as the Great Smog. The smog killed about 12,000 people, along with a dozen cattle who choked on the poisonous air.

Channel 5's The Great Smog: Winter of '52 brought home the full horror of December 1952, when London was shrouded in a toxic pea-souper The word smog cropped up in the English language early in ...

Great Smog of London The serious air pollution crisis struck London in England on December 5, 1952. On December 5, fog descended upon the city of London but this was not a usual phenomena.