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, ...

There's been encouraging progress over the past few decades in reversing the effects of acid rain in the Adirondacks. Just this week, state conservationists announced that brook trout have been found ...

A recent international scientific study on Russian soils raises concerns that acid rain may have serious implications for forest growth in the U.S., particularly in eastern areas such as the ...

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, ...

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ACID rain damages crops. In particular, it damages rice, because many rice-growing countries, which are predominantly in Asia, do not have in place the pollution-control mechanisms that are now ...