Air pollution causes respiratory and cardiovascular disease, strokes, lung cancer and other astute breathing problems – and the air in the UK is not clean. A parliamentary committee called the ...

New research by scientists at King's College London suggests that air pollution from London's roads is improving overall but more work may be needed to tackle some sources of traffic pollution ...

London breached its annual air pollution limits five days into the new year, Mayor Sadiq Khan said Friday. An air monitoring site at Brixton Road in south London began recording levels of ...

Mr. Khan, who has been London’s mayor since 2016, has personal reasons for decreasing air pollution. In 2014, as a member of Parliament, he was asked to run in the London Marathon to raise money ...

London says toxic air pollution has fallen by roughly a third inside a central urban zone where drivers are required to meet specific emission standards or pay a daily fine. The city launched the ...

These bus zones, in particular, are having a big impact. For example, last year the first air quality breach took place on 6 January 2017 on Putney High Street, a notorious pollution hotspot.

London holds the record for the worst air pollution disaster ever, the Great Smog in 1952 that saw 12,000 people die in just four days, according to The Lancet.

London is choking from record levels of pollution, ... London is choking from record levels of pollution, much of it caused by diesel cars and trucks. Skip to content. Local News.

In London, air pollution is “particularly high” between three to eight times a year, according to city hall. Incidents of very high air pollution - ranked 10 out of 10 on the UK Air scale ...