Acid rain describes any form of precipitation that contains high levels of nitric and sulfuric acids. It can also occur in the form of snow, fog, and tiny bits of dry material that settle to Earth.

Depleted ecosystems, dwindling forests, contaminated drinking water and toxic soil. All due to what Canada's Environment Minister John Roberts called in 1980 "the most serious environmental threat to ...

Those of us who are non-millennials may remember back to the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s when the hottest environmental issue was acid rain. In fact, acid rain generated as much controversy and ...

Acid rain, or acid deposition, is a broad term that includes any form of precipitation that contains acidic components, such as sulfuric acid or nitric acid. The precipitation is not necessarily wet ...

(CNN) -- After surviving earthquakes and molten lava, residents of Hawaii's Big Island now have new threats to worry about: steam-driven explosions, hazardous volcanic smog and acid rain. The US ...

The people on Hawaii's Big Island are evacuating areas where there are high levels of sulfur dioxide leaking out of the lava emitted by the Kilauea volcano. Lava, dangerous gases and earthquakes are ...

You remember acid rain, right? Acid rain, like holes in the ozone layer, was a phrase that almost everyone knew from the 1970s to the 2000s. People had images of taking out their umbrellas only to see ...

After surviving earthquakes and molten lava, residents of Hawaii’s Big Island now have new threats to worry about: steam-driven explosions, hazardous volcanic smog and acid rain. The US Geological ...