Acid rain may not have quite as much prominence in public discourse as it did years ago, but that doesn't mean that the problem has gone away. Acid rain effects can be devastating, particularly to ...

An easy and general definition of acid rain can be summarized as any rain, fog, sleet or snow that has been turned acidic by pollutants in air. Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) and Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) are the ...

Amid the recent hoopla over the EPA and Bush administration's plans to make it easy for power plants, oil refineries and chemical factories (major sources of acid rain nationwide) to expand without ...

The United States could see the return of toxic acid rain, an environmental problem thought to have been solved decades ago, due to the White House's rollback of pollution protections, according to an ...

You've probably heard of acid rain: rain that's more acidic than normal because of pollution in the atmosphere. But, if rain can become more acidic, shouldn't it also be able to become more basic?

Acid rain may have been an environmental cause célèbre in the 1980s, after scientists “observed the increase in acidity of some lakes and streams” caused by pollutants, but, decades later, it’s still ...

At the end of the last century, a great environmental crisis came from above in the form of acid rain. As the precipitation “killed” lakes and streams, alarming studies reported massive die-offs of ...

Acid rain is one of those environmental problems that might sound distant, but it affects forests, lakes, wildlife, buildings ...

ALBANY - Changes to federal environmental regulations are leading to a boost in acid rain in the Adirondacks, the nation's largest park, an advocacy group charged Wednesday. The Adirondack Council ...