The Great Smog of 1952 took hold on London exactly 61 years ago, claiming an estimated 4000 lives. A spell of cold weather, combined windless conditions then gathered air particles mainly from the ...
In India, it is possible that so much more is on the ballot in every election that there is little space for issues such as public health ...
The Los Angeles region has some of the most polluted air in the United States, failing to meet standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency for the last decade. Now, Caltech researchers have ...
From coal-fired cities to industrial river valleys, a smokey fog crept in quietly and left behind chaos: schools shut down, people collapsed in the streets, and entire towns were brought to a ...
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Government officials whose job it is to clean the nation’s worst smog from Southern California’s air should be embarrassed. Instead of working together to cut lung-damaging ozone pollution, they are ...
Several parts of Pakistan, including the city of Lahore, are currently facing huge amounts of smog at record levels. The conditions have had a big impact on people living there and residents have been ...
Even if you weren’t around Los Angeles in 1992, you’ve heard of Rodney King, the man whose videotaped beating at the hands of the LAPD put a match to the ensuing riots. As sometimes destructive ...