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 ...

Kate Winkler Dawson's new book chronicles The Great Smog of 1952, when moist air from the Gulf Stream stalled for days over London, mixing with... 'Death In The Air' Revisits 5 Days When London Was ...

On December 9, 1952 – 66 years ago today – a mixture of smoke and fog that killed thousands finally lifted over London. A thick cold fog had settled over the city four days earlier, trapping dirty ...

I was recently re-watching the Netflix series "The Crown" ahead of the new season. I was reminded of a weather-centered episode during the first season, which depicts the beginning of Queen ...

“Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, The Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City” by Kate Winkler Dawson (Hachette) In 1952, post-World War II London was battling more than ...

"Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, The Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City" (Hachette), by Kate Winkler Dawson In 1952, post-World War II London was battling more than ...