Clean air is essential for humanity to thrive and is being compromised around the world by pollution, poor planning and a failure of regulation to protect people. We use #SmogDay to bring atention back to this key issue.
Bill McGuire, Prof. of Geophysical & Climate Hazards, says that policing Extinction Rebellion looks like displacement by state authorities unwilling to act on rising seas In the battle against global heating and climate breakdown there are, at present, two front...
Bill McGuire explains why global heating is making flying even worse… for global heating Even if we often pretend the opposite, we all know how appallingly bad flying is for the environment. Be as green as you like the rest of the time, but just one return...
The possibility of rapid transition comes from accepting how much we are a part of nature and its cycles argue Nick Robins and Andrew Simms and marking Smog Day is one way to reconnect On 5th December 1952, a great smog enveloped London, England, killing thousands,...
Action: please call on MPs to sign Caroline Lucas' #SmogDay early day motion for urgent action to clean the air in our towns and cities. Smog Day is a day to remember all the people who have died prematurely, and avoidably, because of air pollution, and to advance...
See the SmogDay website for the real human stories behind the statistics on pollution. In December 2015, pollution causing smogs in Delhi gave it the worst air quality of any city in the world. It was exactly 63 years since the ‘Great Smog’ of London, estimated...