US pollution may damage UK health
July 14, 2004
Polluted air from America could be damaging the health of people in Britain, experts fear.
Airborne chemicals from 8,000km away are being dumped in the UK and western Europe and may be to blame for a rise in lung disease, say UK scientists.
Dr Alastair Lewis, from the University of York and the Intercontinental Transport of Ozone and Precursors programme, is running a series of tests.
His team will track and sample the air stream across the Atlantic.
About 50 scientists from seven UK universities are to join hundreds of other researchers in the Azores in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
The University of York website has further information.
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