During the early decades of the Industrial Revolution, the main concerns were pollution from the smoke and smog that the coal-fired furnaces created. Since the beginning of the Industrial ...
If the smog had a voice, it would explain why ... At the time of the Industrial Revolution, London and Manchester were unliveable cities with death rates higher than in the surrounding countrysides.
On this day in 1952, buses stood still, cars were abandoned in the street, and residents couldn't see even a few feet in front of themselves as the lethal Great Smog descended on the city Eli ...
The foundations of the modern world were laid by one major event—the industrial revolution. A profusion of new technologies and manufacturing processes, accompanied by innovations in finance and ...
The fourth industrial revolution is the next phase in the digitization of the manufacturing sector, driven by disruptive trends such as the rise of data and connectivity, analytics, human-machine ...
Delhi's marathon, ironically, marked the beginning of the city's smog season ... and changing labour markets" sparked by the "green revolution" in India in the late 1960s and 1970s.