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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Acid Rain Controversy, by James L. Regens and Robert W. Rycroft. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (1988). Numerous tables and graphs; 228 pp.; hardcover, $24.95; paperback, $12.95. Deciding what to do about acid rain is a problem whose shape resembles...
The Reagan administration's record on acid rain has been one of calculated delay and cynical promise. It is now an environmental problem -- and an international one, as well -- that looms larger for the candidates seeking to succeed Reagan. For eight years,...
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...
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...
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.
