POLLUTION levels in London are up to four times the legal limit,new figures reveal today.Nine...By GoodchildSophie
‘The problem was that all the buses and London taxis ran on diesel. Unfortunately, despite a reduction in some pollutants, the increased levels of nitrogen dioxide are a real cause for concern. Nitrogen dioxide occurs with the burning of fossil fuels and can be dangerous or even fatal if co...
We have taken an alternate approach to separate the influences of temperature, season, and ambient pollutant levels on daily mortality in Greater London between 1965 and 1972. In each season, the majority of days fell within one or two temperature ranges, within which the daily death rates also...
LONDON -- Activists from environmental group Greenpeace climbed several London monuments Monday morning in a protest against what they say are dangerous levels of air pollution. Four people were arrested after they scaled Nelson's Column, a 52-meter monument in Trafalgar Square. ...
(353 million cubic feet) of clean air per day since it was launched a few months ago. In the 10-square-kilometer (3.86-square-mile) observed area of the city, smog ratings have been reduced to moderate levels even on severely polluted days, an improvement over the city’s previous ...
LONDON, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Science tests offered surprise results: air inside London classrooms is more polluted than outside, meaning that children in schools are being exposed to higher levels of damaging air pollution inside the classroom than outside. ...
LONDON, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- People exposed to air pollution levels even within Britain's guidelines were found to have changes in the structure of the heart, similar to those seen in the early stages of heart failure, according to a new study released by the Queen Mary University of Lond...
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