Toxic school run: how polluted is the air that children breathe?
Most of Britain’s cities have had illegally polluted air for nearly a decade and the effect of air pollution is particularly bad on children. Ahead of Clean Air Day, we conducted an experiment to assess the air quality on a school run in central London, using new state-of-the art monitors that can measure air pollution in real time.
Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://is.gd/subscribeguardian
Support the Guardian ► https://support.theguardian.com/contr…
Today in Focus podcast ► https://www.theguardian.com/news/seri…
Sign up for the Guardian documentaries newsletter ► https://www.theguardian.com/info/2016…
The Guardian ► https://www.theguardian.com
The Guardian YouTube network:
Guardian News ► http://is.gd/guardianwires
Owen Jones talks ► http://bit.ly/subsowenjones
Guardian Football ► http://is.gd/guardianfootball
Guardian Sport ► http://bit.ly/GDNsport
Guardian Culture ► http://is.gd/guardianculture
Post Series: United Kingdom
- 1.100 years of nature conservation
- 2.Costing the earth
- 3.Tour of London’s Recycling Centre
- 4.Lancashire Community ‘Put Their Bodies On the Line’ to Protest UK Fracking Site
- 5.UK: MP Caroline Lucas in court for opposing fracking
- 6.How to Reduce Air Pollution
- 7.Eco-homes: Living the good life
- 8.H2O Farm on BBC’s Countryfile
- 9.Wind Power: The Truth
- 10.The Problem With Renewable Energy (and how we’re fixing it)
- 11.Cruising: A Dirty Secret
- 12.The British Countryside after Brexit
- 13.Wildlife-Friendly Motorways
- 14.The Growing Season
- 15.Litter
- 16.The Environment after Exit
- 17.Britain Disconnected
- 18.River Quality
- 19.Coast: 50 Years of Change
- 20.The Brixton Soup Kitchen Helping The Homeless
- 21.Can plastic roads help save the planet?
- 22.Zero Waste BABY BAG!! // Out & About with Frida
- 23.WHAT’S IN MY BABY CHANGING BAG – MINIMALIST/ ZERO WASTE / MUM OF 2
- 24.Dispatches: Breadline Kids (Documentary) – Real Stories
- 25.Britain’s Hidden Hungry (full episode)
- 26.Professor Green: Living In Poverty UK
- 27.Breadline Britain: The job of Mum
- 28.Eco-friendly funerals: Six feet greener
- 29.Tour of London’s Recycling Centre
- 30.The story of waste management in the UK
- 31.Britain’s Homeless In Winter | Girls Living On The Streets Of Brighton
- 32.Nigerian sex slavery in the UK | Ross Kemp Extreme World
- 33.Ross Kemp Britains Child Sexual Exploitation
- 34.Recycling for Kids
- 35.Viva! & Sky News: Happy Eggs Farms Exposed
- 36.Glastonbury 2011 – Recycling Bins
- 37.Recycling Team at Glastonbury
- 38.Glastonbury 2011 – Creative Recycling
- 39.Eco-Friendly Tips for Festival Goers | Annie Clarke | Mind Body Bowl
- 40.Leeds Festival 2016 Homeless Clean Up (Salvage day)
- 41.Is there hope for conservation? | James Borrell | TEDxQMUL
- 42.A polar bear has been born in the UK for the first time in 25 years
- 43.Super Smart Dolphin Answers Questions | Extraordinary Animals | Earth
- 44.Freddy & Flora’s Quest for Fairness – Fair Trade teaching resource for preschool children
- 45.How It’s Made: Paper recycling
- 46.HOW IT WORKS – Computer Recycling
- 47.BBC Documentary – A World Without Down’s Syndrome
- 48.60 Minutes: Right or wrong (New Down’s syndrome screening) Australia
- 49.Leavitt Bulldog starring in Saving the British bulldog
- 50.10 Ways Zero Waste Living Changed My Life
- 51.ULTIMATE BEGINNERS GUIDE TO ZERO WASTE! P.1
- 52.ULTIMATE BEGINNERS GUIDE TO ZERO WASTE! P.2
- 53.10 TIPS TO REDUCE (Y)OUR WASTE IN 2018
- 54.10 Easy Ways To Reduce Waste In 2018 | ZERO WASTE
- 55.A Sea Otter’s life – Big Blue Live: Episode 2 – BBC One
- 56.A beautiful day for dolphins – Scottish Dolphin Centre
- 57.Full story of Hywind Scotland – world’s first floating wind farm
- 58.Watch the World’s First Floating Wind Farm Ride the Waves | National Geographic
- 59.Wind Turbine Tour
- 60.Plastic-eating enzyme could fight pollution
- 61.An Island made from plastic bottles by Richart Sowa
- 62.How Plastic Bottles Are Recycled Into Polyester
- 63.Bill Gates is backing the waterless toilet of the future
- 64.In Vessel Composting – What happens to my food and garden recycling?
- 65.6 THINGS TO DO THIS EARTH HOUR! | Kate Arnell
- 66.Material Girl – Why I Choose Organic | Kate Arnell
- 67.MY ZERO WASTE MAKEUP KIT | Starting over | Kate Arnell
- 68.Who Gives A Crap – the best toilet paper EVER! Here’s why…| Kate Arnell | AD
- 69.MY ZERO WASTE CLEANING KIT || Kate Arnell
- 70.RANDOM THINGS I QUIT BUYING | Kate Arnell
- 71.Mooncup – A Zero Waste Time-of-the-Month | Kate Arnell
- 72.Bea Johnson: “Zero Waste Home” | Talks at Google
- 73.B Corp in the UK
- 74.The Launch of the UK B Corporation movement
- 75.Disgusting ‘Fatberg’ Found In London Sewer | World Beneath Our Feet | Earth Lab
- 76.Should our railways be renationalised? – BBC Newsnight
- 77.Bring Back British Rail: Meet the group who want to renationalise UK railways
- 78.David Attenborough on what it was like to film with the Queen for new ITV documentary | ITV News
- 79.20 highlights from The Queen’s Green Planet that showed why David Attenborough and her Majesty
- 80.The Queen’s Green Planet
- 81.The Queen’s Green Planet | Prince Harry Visits St Lucia | ITV
- 82.The Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy – Showcase Video
- 83.The Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy
- 84.Prince Harry unveils The Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy dedication
- 85.The Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy Initiative launched at Buckingham Palace
- 86.Forest projected on Buckingham Palace for conservation initiative
- 87.Baby Okapi Starts to Explore
- 88.The Homeless Period
- 89.‘The armpit of hell’: where Mumbai keeps its prostitutes | Channel 4 News
- 90.Life inside Extinction Rebellion: ‘We can’t get arrested quick enough’
- 91.Extinction Rebellion Climate Change Protests TAKE OVER London!
- 92.The Extinction Rebellion
- 93.Sir David Attenborough addresses UN climate change summit
- 94.49 Days On The Streets: From The Day I Became Homeless
- 95.Homeless At 14 After A Tragic Death: On The Streets Of Manchester
- 96.Scared, Hopeful, Angry, But Happy That I’m Free: Young & Homeless
- 97.In Care From The Age Of 6: Finding A Family
- 98.Poor Kids (Poverty Documentary) – Real Stories
- 99.The British children from working families falling into poverty | ITV News
- 100.UN: UK austerity inflicts ‘great misery’, child poverty ‘disgrace’
- 101.Children of Austerity: Poverty in 21st Century Britain (Part 1)
- 102.Children of Austerity: Poverty in 21st Century Britain (Part 2)
- 103.UN Investigation into UK Poverty
- 104.Why China doesn’t want your waste anymore – BBC News
- 105.Why Plastic Pollution is Personal | Natalie Fee | TEDxBristol
- 106.Can plastic roads help save the planet? BBC News
- 107.How Ants Are Used For Agriculture in Thailand | BBC Earth
- 108.The incredible secret life of London’s bees – BBC
- 109.Flat Earth rising: meet the people casting aside 2,500 years of science
- 110.VAWT wind turbine testing UK 24 volt VERY WINDY
- 111.‘Lives instead of knives’: one woman’s fight to end knife crime in London
- 112.The stabbing victim on a mission to end violence in London
- 113.UK knife crime: the London trauma ward at the frontline
- 114.London Undercover – Knife Crime: An Epidemic on London’s Streets
- 115.London’s Knife Crime Emergency: ON A KNIFE EDGE (Full Length Documentary)
- 116.How gang violence affects mental health – BBC News
- 117.What teens plagued by knife crime want done about it | ITV News
- 118.Losing My Best Friend To Knife Crime: Reenel’s Truth Circle Confession | One Hot Summer Stories
- 119.Kids, Knives & Broken Lives (Crime Documentary) – Real Stories
- 120.Stop and search: police battle for control of London’s streets | Guardian Investigations
- 121.Male Rape: Breaking the Silence | My Story
- 122.The Truth About Stealthing | Sex & Lies
- 123.What Happens When A Woman Abuses A Man In Public?
- 124.Fighting Shame
- 125.Dirty Business: what really happens to your recycling
- 126.Bug reserve: Inside ‘Britain’s brownfield rainforest’ | earthrise
- 127.A Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants Could Lead to a Sustainable Future | Short Film Showcase
- 128.Fairtrade’s Secret Hot Chocolate Salon London Pop-up “Rosine’s”
- 129.Secrets of the Garden – Full Episode | National Geographic
- 130.Introducing Trees for Life
- 131.Trees For Life: Amazing Results of Conservation Projects
- 132.Trees For Life : Dundreggan
- 133.STV News – New Species at Dundreggan
- 134.What is a Pangolin? – The Pangolin: No Time to REST
- 135.Special Report: Exploited: Britain’s Hidden Slaves
- 136.The college cleaner no-one knew was a slave – BBC News
- 137.Tackling Modern Slavery – Stronger Together
- 138.Spotting the signs
- 139.Can you spot the signs of a modern slave? | Human Trafficking
- 140.Concrete – Tackling Modern Slavery in the Construction Sector
- 141.Vegan Vs Livestock Farmer | Don’t Turn Around
- 142.Saving the world from plastic – BBC Click
- 143.Huge Blobs of Fat and Trash Are Filling the World’s Sewers | National Geographic
- 144.Where Does Your Sewage Go? | I Didn’t Know That
- 145.A fatberg the size of 2 football pitches was found in London’s sewers
- 146.Flushers fightback against London’s underworld fatbergs
- 147.Fracking England Documentary 2018: Yorkshire
- 148.Fracking Hell: The Untold Story
- 149.Does Fracking Cause Earthquakes? – Bang Goes the Theory – Series 6 – BBC
- 150.Fracking: The real cost of shale in Texas | Guardian Investigations
- 151.Why your recyclables might have no place to go
- 152.Game of Thrones Helped Save a Farm
- 153.The true cost of fast fashion | The Economist
- 154.You are what you wear: Christina Dean at TEDxHKBU
- 155.COHOUSING FAMILIES: Raising children in community
- 156.Ecological cohousing at LILAC Leeds: Paul Chatterton at TEDxLeeds
- 157.Co-housing for London’s ageing population – BBC London
- 158.Lilac (Low Impact Living Affordable Community) – United Kingdom
- 159.LILAC: An experimental model in affordable community-led housing
- 160.LILAC (Low Impact Living Affordable Community) housing project in Leeds
- 161.Permaculture Stories – Joe Atkinson on Low Impact Living Affordable Communities (LILAC), Leeds
- 162.Permaculture and Community: LILAC Green Cohousing
- 163.Would you live in a ‘straw house’?
- 164.Extinction Rebellion (XR) London – Day 1 (15th April 2019)
- 165.Jem Bendell XR Opening Speech, London, Our Mother Earth Says #MeToo, 15/04/2019 Extinction Rebellion
- 166.Extinction Rebellion Coordinator Outlines His Demands to the Government | Good Morning Britain
- 167.Extinction Rebellion protests continue for the seventh day in London
- 168.XR Earth March to London
- 169.Climate change protest grinds London to a halt
- 170.Greta Thunberg full speech at Extinction Rebellion protest in London
- 171.Extinction Rebellion: what pushes people to drastic action on climate change?
- 172.Extinction Rebellion ’shut down’ London
- 173.Extinction Rebellion: Will climate change protests force a response? – BBC Newsnight
- 174.Corbyn calls on MPs to declare climate emergency: ‘We’ve no time to waste’
- 175.UK Parliament Urgent Question “Declare a Climate Emergency?” – Extinction Rebellion
- 176.UK lawmakers declare symbolic climate emergency
- 177.Ed Miliband: Why UK should declare climate change emergency
- 178.Greta Thunberg Schools Adults on Climate Change Inaction | NowThis
- 179.UK Parliament declares climate change an emergency?
- 180.The State of UK Environmental Policy 2018: The government’s 25 year environment plan
- 181.Fashion Revolution #haulternative – Second Hand Haul | Kate Arnell
- 182.How To Reduce Our Waste: Food vs Fashion | Melissa Hemsley
- 183.Why is Scotland leading the UK in renewable energy? | ITV News
- 184.World’s largest offshore wind farm generates electricity for the first time | ITV News
- 185.Climate Change: What Can We Do?
- 186.Slash & Burn | Part 1: Why Amazonian farmers use fire
- 187.Slash & Burn | Part 2: How Amazonian farmers manage fire
- 188.Slash & Burn | Part 3: Problems that occur with burn practices
- 189.Slash & Burn | Part 4: Alternatives to present practices
- 190.Slash & Burn | Part 5: How can things change?
- 191.Investigating Deforestation of the Amazon | Ross Kemp Extreme World
- 192.Fighting cancer: Animal research at Cambridge
- 193.The Cure – Liver on a Chip
- 194.Planet Placement Launch with Solitaire Townsend & Steve Smith at BAFTA
- 195.Protecting Scotland’s Coral Reefs #OurBluePlanet | BBC Earth
- 196.Caterpillar Cocoon Timelapse | BBC Earth
- 197.Budel Solar Farm, Netherlands
- 198.Why is chicken so cheap? | The Economist
- 199.Brexit: The Hidden Danger of Chlorinated Chicken. With Stephen Fry
- 200.Inside Kew Garden’s secretive tropical nursery – BBC London News
- 201.This is the World’s Loneliest Tree
- 202.How do cigarette butts create environmental hazards?
- 203.Heathrow Expansion Arguments: The Environment
- 204.3rd runway at Heathrow is given government backing – BBC London News
- 205.Environmental Impacts of Airports and Aviation
- 206.My Side Hustle; Co-Founder, Beauty Banks. Like foodbanks but with hygiene & personal care items
- 207.Sunderland Stories – The Beauty Bank
- 208.The hidden hygiene poverty crisis in Wales
- 209.Primary school children affected by hygiene poverty, charity finds
- 210.The Hygiene Bank & ITV news
- 211.The 16 Year Old Tackling Period Poverty: Amazing Humans
- 212.The Hygiene Bank & Channel 4 – Growing numbers of children living in ‘appalling conditions’
- 213.What Future for the UK with One-Third of Children in Poverty?
- 214.Overshadowed by Brexit, the poor and homeless ignored in Britain l Al Jazeera English
- 215.The Working Poor: Britain’s families living on the breadline
- 216.Deep-sea mining could transform the globe
- 217.Why 25 degrees really is hot in the UK | Did You Know?
- 218.Is climate change causing the worldwide heatwave? | ITV News
- 219.BBC News Night – (with Farhana Yamin) – Extinction Rebellion – Apr17th
- 220.Extinction Rebellion Meets the Natural History Museum London
- 221.UK: Activists protest Petroleum Group’s annual dinner at natural history museum
- 222.Toxic school run: how polluted is the air that children breathe?
- 223.The school so polluted it has to fight toxic air with barricades – BBC London
- 224.UK schools trial road closures to combat air pollution | 5 News
- 225.Air pollution is making us sick
- 226.The Madness of Social Housing in the United Kingdom
- 227.Line 18: UK’s housing crisis won’t be solved by more homes
- 228.How have attitudes changed towards social housing in the UK?
- 229.The housing crisis shows how broken and unjust the UK is | Owen Jones talks …
- 230.Britain’s Housing Crisis: Peterborough – BBC Newsnight
- 231.“They tell me to live on the streets” – universal Credit “isn’t working”
- 232.‘I’ve run out of tears’: inside London’s temporary housing crisis
- 233.Housing Britain: Moved miles away from home – BBC Newsnight
- 234.Social housing and mental health
- 235.Changing The Future | A New Climate
- 236.Costing the Earth | A New Climate
- 237.China, hero or villain? | A New Climate
- 238.How to lead a low carbon life | A New Climate
- 239.Poverty vs climate change | A New Climate
- 240.America’s Political Battle | A New Climate
- 241.UK heatwave: Is climate change to blame? – BBC Newsnight
- 242.Are Puffins and Turtle Doves at Risk of Extinction?
- 243.Puffins among birds to thrive on island after rat cull | ITV News
- 244.First Time Cute Baby Puffin Sees World | World Beneath Your Feet | BBC
- 245.Puffins & Seabirds Of The Beautiful Farne Islands UK
- 246.A Day in the Life of RSPB Bempton Cliffs Reserve
- 247.RSPB releases Birdsong album to raise awareness about declining numbers | 5 News
- 248.Let Nature Sing making of the single documentary
- 249.The RSPB – Let Nature Sing
- 250.Trump’s 2020 Campaign Is Now Selling Plastic Straws: ‘Liberal Paper Straws Don’t Work’ | TIME
- 251.Plastic straws, stirrers, and cotton buds to be banned in England
- 252.Plastic straws and cotton buds among single-use plastics to be banned in the UK | 5 News
- 253.Plastic bags usage down 90% (England) – BBC News – 30th July 2016
- 254.Plastic bag charge to be doubled to 10p in all shops across England
- 255.Moss-filled smart wall cleans London’s air
- 256.Moss Trees – amazing air cleaning moss wall tree in the UK
- 257.Watch UK’s Natural Land Diminish in 100 Seconds | Short Film Showcase
- 258.London National Park City
- 259.London: a National Park City?
- 260.David Attenborough: ‘Climate Change – Britain Under Threat’
- 261.UK town aiming to be carbon neutral
- 262.Solcer, a carbon positive house – Innovation in Sustainability Award 2015
- 263.The UK has pledged ‘net zero’ carbon emissions, but what does this mean? | Euronews Answers
- 264.How life will change in a world of net zero emissions | ITV News
- 265.How does carbon offsetting work – Adam Hart-Davis
- 266.Why is Oxfam championing sustainable fashion? | Oxfam GB
- 267.#SECONDHANDSEPTEMBER
- 268.Could you go a month without buying anything new? – BBC London
- 269.Fashion Fighting Poverty – London Fashion Week 2019 | Oxfam GB
- 270.How Oxfam recycles and reuses your donated clothing | Oxfam GB
- 271.Plastic pollution: ‘We’ve lost the battle on the beaches’
- 272.Food Waste In The UK Versus France
- 273.UK’s land use must alter to limit climate change l A New Climate
- 274.The RSPB on Marine Conservation Zones in the UK
- 275.Blue Belt programme
- 276.Marine Conservation, Releasing Pregnant Lobsters Back Into The Wild, with Craig Evans
- 277.We are the Marine Conservation Society
- 278.Marine Conservation Zones – Save Our British Seas
- 279.The RSPB on Marine Conservation Zones in the north of England
- 280.38 Million Pieces of Plastic Trash Cover This Remote Island | National Geographic
- 281.British Seagrass could help tackle climate change
- 282.Ecocide, the 5th Crime Against Peace: Polly Higgins at TEDxExeter
- 283.Leadership and A Law of Ecocide: Polly Higgins at TEDxTallinn 2013
- 284.The Crime of Ecocide – Polly Higgins Interview
- 285.Royal Court of Justice, Make Ecocide Law! | Extinction Rebellion
- 286.On Contact: Civil Disobedience to Stop Ecocide
- 287.The “climate kids” suing the government
- 288.Feminist T-Shirt Caught Up In Sweatshop Controversy
- 289.Prince Harry: ‘climate change is an emergency’
- 290.How Much Plastic Do You Eat? #OurBluePlanet | Earth Lab
- 291.Plastics in every part of the ocean
- 292.Plastic whale goes on a journey for #OceanRescue
- 293.Washing with delicate cycle releases tons of microplastics – TomoNews
- 294.Microplastics found in UK tap water
- 295.Are We Eating Plastic for Dinner? | Dhruv Boruah | TEDxCamden
- 296.Holderness Coastline – A study in coastal erosion
- 297.Slumping at Hornsea March 2019
- 298.Coastal erosion and landsliding on the Aldbrough coast, East Riding of Yorkshire
- 299.What is eco-anxiety?
- 300.For People Feeling Eco Anxiety
- 301.Wild goats take over deserted Welsh town during coronavirus lockdown
- 302.Are Vegetarians Healthier? – Should I Eat Meat? – BBC
- 303.G7 nations finalise historic deal to end tax abuse by global companies – BBC News
- 304.Corporation tax explained – BBC News
- 305.G7 countries reach deal on global corporate tax | DW News
- 306.Small Businesses Attempt To Avoid Tax Like Corporations | Good Morning Britain
- 307.The Town That Took On The Taxman (Tax Revolt Documentary) | Real Stories
- 308.Small Welsh Town Revolts Against Corporate Tax Breaks!
- 309.How the Isle of Man became a tax haven
- 310.Paradise Papers: How Lewis Hamilton got a £3.3m VAT refund – BBC News
- 311.Queen Elizabeth’s offshore investments surface in Paradise Papers
- 312.How Rich Is The British Royal Family?
- 313.Inside The Royal Family’s $28 Billion Fortune | Forbes
- 314.How the British royal family makes money
- 315.Queen Elizabeth urged to rewild her estates with lynx, beavers and bison by campaigners
- 316.How to Bring Wilderness Back to Britain | Rewilding UK
- 317.Wild Boar Thriving in the UK! – Rewilding
- 318.Returning our Farm to Nature – Rewilding Mapperton (Episode 1)
- 319.Is It Too Late to Stop Climate Armageddon? The IPCC Report Explained