British academics have warned that air pollution from Paris is blighting the southeast of England, reports The Times.
The French capital, which recorded worse air quality than Beijing on one day last month, is an important source of billows of smog that float over to London and the south coast a dozen times a year, according to the Environmental Research Group at King’s College London.
They predicted that the wind would carry high concentrations of harmful particles across the Channel on Easter Monday, following a haze of pollution that accompanied dust from the Sahara this month.
According to the Evening Standard, the researchers had predicted that the Parisian fug would “dip into central France and travel over Paris before arriving in the southeast” after high levels of pollution over the Seine last weekend.
Figures from the government’s UK air information resource show that levels of superfine smog particles known as PM10 and PM2.5 spiked in London on Monday morning, rising as much as 300 per cent in some areas.
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