Heavy fogs have long been a part of life in London. But the darkness that enveloped the city on December 5, 1952 wasn’t your ...

Beginning on December 5, 1952, 72 years ago today, a cloak of dense fog descended upon London. It became so dense ... otherwise nuisance fog into a toxic smog. This five-day smog event was ...

The smog choking Lahore today is not unprecedented. Let us consider the Great Smog of London in December 1952. This toxic fog, laden with smoke and pollutants, enveloped the city for five days ...

On 30 December 1952, a double-decker bus drove on to Tower Bridge on its usual route between Shoreditch and Dulwich. It was ...

It can be pretty disconcerting to realize that things are happening all the time around us, to the point that massive events ...

causing "pea-soup" conditions where the smog appeared yellow or green due to sulphur pollutants. A London policeman wearing a mask for protection against the thick fog which hit most of the country ...

This event is called the Great Smog of London — a severe air pollution event that lasted five days and had a devastating impact on the city. It was a sudden environmental disaster that left ...

Referred to as "pea-soupers", the most famous of these events was the so-called Great Smog of London in 1952. It was recently dramatised in the first series of the Netflix drama, The Crown.

London, for instance, was notorious for its pollution during much of the 19th and early 20th centuries. As late as 1952, the so-called Great Smog covered London with a thick toxic layer of ...

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) A weather map ...