Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Big Smoke developed in London on Dec. 5, 1952, triggered by a period of cold weather collecting airborne pollutants, mainly ...

A new study on the worst pollution event in recorded history, what’s known as the London Smog, finds a staggering link between pollution and asthma. On Friday, December 5, 1952, a suffocating cloud ...

In early December 1952, a great mass of cold air moved off the English Channel, draped itself over London like an icy comforter and stayed put. Trying to keep warm, Londoners piled extra coal into ...

The factories of Manchester and New York were the proud symbols of industrialisation, ushering in an era of progress and prosperity in the 18th century. But beneath the chimneys that fuelled this ...

A team of atmospheric scientists researching pollution in China say they've cracked a 60-year-old mystery — with research that explains not only the haze over Beijing, but also the remarkably toxic ...

The winter season can be chaotic at Earth’s mid and high latitudes. During this time of year, temperature differences between the Arctic Circle and the equator are at their most dramatic. Those big ...

The Big Smoke developed in London on Dec. 5, 1952, triggered by a period of cold weather collecting airborne pollutants, mainly from the coal fires that were used to heat homes at the time, which ...