Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. This article is more than 3 years old. Fog and ice on ...

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 ...

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 river, ...

London's poor air quality was an issue for centuries, but between Dec. 5 and 9, 1952, a perfect storm of weather patterns helped create a tragic event that killed thousands, later sparking the Clean ...

We mainly think of fog today as a danger when driving or flying. But it can also be deadly in a different way. Beginning on December 5, 1952, 72 years ago today, a cloak of dense fog descended upon ...

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. Lasting just over four ...

For five days in December 1952, a thick smog suffocated the British capital causing the death of thousands of Londoners. The health catastrophe lead to a realisation, in Britain and around the world, ...