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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.
Launched in 1993 by researchers at King's College, London, [1] it is currently managed by the Environmental Research Group of Imperial College with funding from local authorities, business improvement districts, Transport for London, and Defra, and has grown to become "the largest air-quality measuring system of its kind in the world".
In 2022, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution recognizing the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as a human right. [224] In the United Kingdom, air pollution campaigning currently involves a mixture of grassroots activism (by groups such as Mums for Lungs and individual campaigners such as Rosamund Kissi-Debrah [225 ...
Global map of Carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions from fossil fuels and industry. Land use change is not included. [1] Annual CO 2 emissions by region. This measures fossil fuel and industry emissions. Land use change is not included. [2] Cumulative CO 2 emissions by world region, 2022. [3]
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 ...
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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 ]
The January 2024 version of the WHO database contains results of ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 5,390 towns and cities in 63 countries. Air quality in the database is represented by the annual mean concentration of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5, i.e. particles smaller than 10 or 2.5 micrometers, respectively). [1 ...