Over five days, nearly 4,000 people perished. Still, this is not the full extent of the catastrophe that's etched in history as the Great Smog of London. What was life like then, and did the smog ...

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 ...

Smog usually consists of soot particles ... but that air pollution increased in East Asia. Although we have made great progress during the past 70 years at reducing pollutants in the air, ground-level ...