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Acid Rain Summary
1,459 words, approx. 5 pages Acid rain is the term used in the popular press that is equivalent to acidic deposition as used in the scientific literature. Acid deposition results from the deposition of airborne acidic pollutants on land and in bodies of water. These pollutants can...
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Acid Rain Summary
1,184 words, approx. 4 pages Acid rain occurs when polluting gasses become trapped in clouds that drift for hundreds, even thousands, of miles and are finally released as acidic precipitation. Trees, lakes, animals, and even buildings are vulnerable to the slow corrosive effects...
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Acid Rain Summary
814 words, approx. 3 pages Acid rain is rain with a pH (a logarithmic measurement of acidity or alkalinity) of less than 5.7. Acid rain usually results from elevated levels of nitric and sulfuric acids in air pollution. Acidic pollutants that can lead to acid rain are common...
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Acid Rain Summary
737 words, approx. 3 pages Acid rain, or acidic precipitation, first attracted scientific attention in the mid 1950s in Scandinavia, with studies focused on acidity and surface waters. Concern in the United States, Europe, and Canada began to rise in the 1960s when researchers...
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2,670 words, approx. 9 pages
 Acid rain is rain or any other form of precipitation which is unusually acidic. It has harmful effects on plants, aquatic animals and buildings. Acid rain is mostly caused by human emissions of sulfur and nitrogen compounds which react in the atmosphere...




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Coal's other victim: China's history
11/4/2007: 559 words, approx. 2 pages A few years back, the Leshan Giant Buddha started to weep.Or so some locals imagined when black streaks appeared on the rose-colored cheeks of the towering 7th-century figure, hewn from sandstone cliffs in the forests of southern China. They worried they had angered the religious...
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Keller Speaks on Newspaper Crisis
11/30/2007: 266 words, approx. 1 pages Bill Keller spoke in England earlier this week about the sad state of the American newspaper business. Topics included the "acid rain" of criticisms heaped upon The New York Times, the "press-phobic" Bush administration, and the newpaper-eating internet."Most of the blog world does not...
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Rep. Dingell floats 'carbon tax' plan
7/7/2007: 309 words, approx. 1 pages A House committee chairman is trying to show his Democratic colleagues that people in the U.S. are not ready to pay the full costs of fixing global warming.Rep. John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, says he will propose a "carbon tax"...
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Senators map new plan for climate bill
8/2/2007: 322 words, approx. 1 pages Senators are lining up behind a carbon trading plan to slow global warming, with the aim of cutting 70 percent of U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 2050.The approach draws on the United Nations' Kyoto Protocol, the controversial system begun in...



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Acid Rain
921 words, approx. 3 pages
 Acid Rain is an extensive term used to describe the way acid falls out of the atmosphere. In a much more precise term, it is Acid Deposition, which has two different parts, wet or dry.
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Acid Rain Solutions
456 words, approx. 2 pages
 Describes the environmental problem of acid rain. Examines how harmful it is on a global level. Offers possible solutions.


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