Here are the basics.) The terrible, choking fog had a nickname—the Great Smog. Between December 5 and 9, 1952, the environmental disaster strangled London. It would affect British health—and ...

When the smog finally lifted ... Interestingly, while the London fog was highly acidic, contemporary Chinese haze is ...

A policeman uses flares to guide traffic during the Great Smog of 1952. Daily Mirror Library / Mirrorpix / Contributor via Getty Images At first, the headlines were calm. “Fog blanketed London ...

London was famous for its foggy atmosphere during the 19th-century Victorian era; however, this was actually smog, not fog. Soon this smog even got denser, with almost zero visibility, it is said ...

In late 1952, the city of London was blanketed by a cloud of fog. Then there was a lack of wind to blow it away and an upper layer of warm air that held it in place.