After more than 3,000 scientific papers and eight government reports on the subject, acid rain is still an enormous problem. More than 50 million tons of sulfur and nitrogen oxides–the acid rain ...

Acid rain is precipitation that contains harmful acids formed from air pollution, and it can damage ecosystems, structures, ...

There’s only one problem with that version of history: It’s not true. As Scientific American reports, acid rain is a continuing and growing problem; forests and animals all over the world ...

The cause? Acid rain. But flash forward to today, and the presence of sulfuric and nitric acids in precipitation throughout the continent has decreased tremendously, thanks to reductions in the ...

But a new analysis of decades of research shows that pollution and other human activities are threatening the survival of this cherished symbol of ... chemicals caused acid rain and made many ...

Decades ago, acid rain was one of the world’s most alarming environmental crises. Pollution from coal power plants and cars made rainfall so toxic that it killed fish, wiped out forests ...

Now scientists are warning of a whole bunch of other possible hazards: acid rain, a bunch of falling ash, and eruptions that could propel huge boulders into the sky. Hazardous fumes continue to be ...

The experimental forest had suffered depletion of key soil nutrients due to acid rain. The study not only illustrates the impact of acid rain, but a potential treatment to help reverse the damage.

Daniela Schmidt, professor of paleobiology at the University of Bristol, UK, told Newsweek that the ash and acid rain caused by the volcano's gases will cause vegetation and marine life on the ...

Researchers bushwhacked their way to remote parts of the pine barrens and Shelter Island last week to launch the first study of acid rain's impact on Long Island's ecosystem. Six sites in the Pine ...