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The Great Smog Descended on London More Than 70 Years Ago—And its Cause Took Almost As Long to Discover
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 ...
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The Great London Smog: How the weather conspired to kill 12,000 people
A London policeman wearing a mask for protection against the thick fog which hit most of the country and turned to smog in the city on Jan. 1, 1962. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) London's poor ...
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In the Fog about Smog: Solving the Smog Puzzle
which was different from the sulfurous smog that claimed lives in Donora, Pa., and London, England. In those places, the culprit was the burning of coal, but there was very little of that in Los ...
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Artist Claude Monet's odes to London's 'beautiful' smog appear in city
Claude Monet was enchanted by the mysterious light generated by London's famous "smog", and the city he loved is now hosting a new exhibition recognising his strange fascination with the ...
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World’s most polluted city where 9MILLION people live in choking soup of toxic smog… which six times worse than London
MILLIONS are choking on toxic air and struggling to breathe in the world's most polluted city, with the streets enveloped in thick smog ... pollution levels than London. Conditions are so bad ...