The effect of aphid (Cinara pinea Mordv.) infestation on the growth of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) seedlings was tested in a simulated acid rain experiment with four different treatments: dry ...

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 ...

In the 1970s, acid rain was one of the most serious environmental threats in North America and Europe. The air was so laden with pollution from coal power plants and cars at the time that it turned ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...