Still, this is not the full extent of the catastrophe that's etched in history as the Great Smog of ... On December 9, 1952, the wind finally dispersed the smog from the city, but it didn't ...

Heavy fogs have long been a part of life in London. In his novel Bleak House, Charles Dickens wrote: “Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the ...

Dr Xand van Tulleken and Raksha Dave investigate the Great Smog of 1952, the deadliest environmental disaster ever recorded and one of the world's worst peacetime catastrophes. Dr Xand van ...

London's poor air quality was an issue for centuries, but between Dec. 5 and 9, 1952, a perfect storm of ... reducing winds and trapping the smog for days, causing "pea-soup" conditions where ...

Fog can trap pollutants, as it famously did in the U.K.'s Great Smog of 1952. If bad enough, this can lead to or exacerbate respiratory illnesses — no nefarious “Fogvid-24” origins required.

But another 15 years of periodic outbreaks of smog still lay ahead, before London's Great Smog of 1952 finally spurred Parliament into action in the form of the Clean Air Act of 1956. -BFI ...