{"id":656068,"date":"2026-06-24T17:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656068\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:12:12","slug":"toxic-air-death-estimates-in-london-drop-by-40-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656068\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic air death estimates in London drop by 40%, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new report by Imperial College London&#8217;s environmental research group estimated the number of premature deaths in London attributable to air quality was between 3,800 and 5,100 in 2024, a significant drop from 2019&#8217;s numbers of 6,400 to 8,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This new study used &#8220;a scientifically stronger approach&#8221; than previous efforts, researchers said. An earlier study estimated the number of premature deaths linked to air pollution in 2019 was 4,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Researchers also found that fine particulate pollution \u2013 extremely small particles that can have a serious impact on health &#8211; fell by 28% from 2019 to 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new report by Imperial College London&#8217;s environmental research group estimated the number of premature deaths in London&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-656068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}