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Estimated air pollution in London from 1700 to 2016. Air pollution is often assumed to have begun with the Industrial Revolution, but it's a much older problem. [15]Mining has existed in Great Britain since prehistoric times and lead mines (such as Charterhouse in Somerset and Odin Mine in Derbyshire) may have been worked before Roman Britain.
An air pollution monitoring station in Shaftesbury Avenue, London – part of the London Air Quality Network. The London Air Quality Network (LAQN) is a collection of urban air pollution monitoring stations in London and South East England.
The most commonly used air quality index in the UK is the Daily Air Quality Index recommended by the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP). [39] This index has ten points, which are further grouped into four bands: low, moderate, high and very high.
Since 1993, the London Air Quality Network of Imperial College London has coordinated the monitoring of air pollution across 30 London boroughs and Heathrow, and has noted that in 2005–2006 almost all road and kerbside monitoring sites across greater London exceeded the annual average limits for nitrogen dioxide of 40 μgm (21 ppb), with eleven sites exceeding the hourly limits of 200 μgm ...
Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah was just nine-years-old when she suffered a fatal asthma attack on 15 February 2013. Fast forward to 2020, and she became the first person in the UK to have air pollution ...
According to the UK NEA, grazing air pollution and the forces of climate change have significantly affected the mountainous regions of the UK. [1] Due to climate change; rising seawater temperatures and exploitation of marine resources led to a serious loss of quality in UK marine ecosystems. [ 1 ]
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The United Kingdom suffered its worst air pollution event when the 4 December Great Smog of 1952 formed over London. In six days more than 4,000 died and more recent estimates put the figure at nearer 12,000.