In 1984, New York State passed the first law in the nation to control
acid rain, the State Acid Deposition Control Act.
When
acid rain flows via soils in a watershed, aluminum is leached out from soils into the lakes and streams present in that watershed.
I have asked scientists at Cardiff University if a grand recovery from the effects of
acid rain is on the way or has nature in its inimitable way developed a strain of fish that can withstand the strains of
acid rain.
The term, '
acid rain' refers to a phenomenon in which falling rain sometimes can be acidic.
* Scottish chemist Robert Angus Smith coined the term
acid rain in his 1872 book Air and Rain: The Beginnings of a Chemical Climatology.
Many people have received the
acid rain message over the past several days.
With average acidity in rivers falling due to improvements in the levels of
acid rain, the researchers expected up to 29 insect species should have re-colonised the improving Welsh streams.
Acid rain is a complex environmental problem which affects the United States and many other countries around the world.
The trail is a living laboratory of protected slices of land that could reflect environmental changes such as higher ozone levels,
acid rain, smog, and other air quality indicators.
Since the Ontario government introduced the Countdown
Acid Rain program the company has spent close to $1 billion to reduce S02 emission in its Greater Sudbury operations.