The beauty of the Adirondacks is now threatened by climate change (see the Climate Change station). However, this is not the first threat the Adirondacks have faced. Beginning in the 1970s and 80s, ...

Depleted ecosystems, dwindling forests, contaminated drinking water and toxic soil. All due to what Canada's Environment Minister John Roberts called in 1980 "the most serious environmental threat to ...

Brenda, from Rock Island, wants to know if weather conditions like snow, frost, dew, humidity and rain affect the amount of acid in air moisture. The form of precipitation and the amount of water ...

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, ...

When acidic components get into rain or other forms of precipitation, acid rain can make trees die. It won't hurt you to walk or swim in acid rain, but the particles that cause it may hurt your lungs ...

Acid rain, or acid deposition, is a broad term that includes any form of precipitation that contains acidic components, such as sulfuric acid or nitric acid. The precipitation is not necessarily wet ...

ORONO, Maine -- The federal Clean Air Act of 1990 appears to be successful in reducing two major types of air pollutants that contribute to acid rain, and signs of recovery are beginning to occur in ...