Acid rain is any form of precipitation that contains high levels of nitric and sulfuric acids. First coined by Scottish chemist Robert Angus Smith in 1852, acid rain can also occur in the form of snow ...

Acid rain may not have quite as much prominence in public discourse as it did years ago, but that doesn't mean that the problem has gone away. Acid rain effects can be devastating, particularly to ...

PONTIAC -- Shawna Elmore, a Pontiac Township High School senior, read the marble gravestone of a child buried in Northwest Pontiac Cemetery. "It makes me kind of sad, looking at stones about children, ...

Acid rain has been greatly reduced but tons of toxis still drift down each year. MARCH 4, 2013— -- Acid rain commanded as much attention in the 1990s as global warming or the hole in the ozone ...

Waist deep in a mountain stream, Pat Harmon sports a Ghostbuster-esque backpack labeled “LR-24 Electrofisher.” He’s accompanied by three net-equipped assistants. Their prey? The small, elusive and ...

Before the United States 1970 Clean Air Act, rainfall all over the country was acidic. As precipitation would fall from the sky, it would mix with gases from industrial plants, emissions from cars, ...

To observe some of the potential effects of acid rain on leaf tissue of Pteridium aquilinum and Quercus palustris, plants were exposed to simulated sulfate acid rain at predetermined pH levels.

The effects of prolonged simulated acid rain on percentage cover of ground vegetation, and on growth and reproduction of two dominating dwarf shrubs (Empetrum nigrum and Vaccinium vitis-idaea) were ...

Being the world 3rd producer of iron and 9th producer of steel, combined with a lot of car gas emissions, are all the facts that made Brazil the largest acid rain producer in the South America. The ...