2008Feb28: The reduction of pollution through congestion charges has added an 1,888 extra years of life to London’s seven million residents, according to a study by researchers at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and King’s College London published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine (BBC, 2008).
Reference: BBC. 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7266687.stm Image Description: London Eye capsule. Photo by Adrian Pingstone, 2004Nov.
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