When acid rain falls upon an ecosystem, it affects the water supply as well as the plants and animals in that area. In aquatic ecosystems, acid rain can harm fish, insects and other aquatic animals.

Acid rain not only harms human health but is also damaging to animals. An imals that live in aquatic environments, such as lakes, rivers, and streams, are most affected by acid rain.

As Scientific American reports, acid rain is a continuing and growing problem; forests and animals all over the world (including the U.S. East Coast) are indeed facing catastrophe.

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ALBANY, N.Y. – For years, the invisible menace of acid rain has been slowly destroying life in the once-pristine lakes of the Adirondack Park. Researchers say 500 of the roughly 2,800 lakes s… ...

When the gases produced for electricity or by cars combines with the oxygen and water already in the air, it forms what is known as acid rain — or rain with a pH between 4.2 and 4.4.

It can result from decaying plants and animals or natural cataclysms, such as volcanoes, but the major cause of acid rain is the releasing of chemicals by humans. The main gases that lead to acid ...

The acid rain scourge of the '70s and '80s that killed trees and fish and even dissolved parts of statues on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall is back. But unlike the first round, in which sulfur ...

Acid rain already has caused problems in northeast Florida. In August 1986, acid rain did $275,000 worth of damage by corroding the paint on 2,000 BMW cars parked at the Jacksonville port.

A forest watered by acid rain may be less able to slake its thirst. That’s one finding from a decades-long experiment in the Appalachian Mountains, where the U.S. Forest Service since 1989 has ...

Is acid rain coming down over Ohio farmlands? Social media posts claim this is an effect of the response to the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. A woman in a Feb. 19 Facebook video ...