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A Dictionary of Ecology | Date: 2004

acid rain See acid precipitation.

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Acid rain; air quality, global change, or what?
National Forum; 1/1/1990; Rycroft, Robert W.; 787 words ; Acid Rain Air Quality, Global Change, or What? What are we doing about acid rain? During the last few years, literally dozens of bills designed to address the problem of acid rain have been introduced in the United States Congress ... Read more
Rough winter led to rise in acid rain
The Boston Globe; 7/11/1993; Andrew Blake, Globe Staff; 787 words ; Acid rain, the silent killer of marine life in lakes ... according to a state study of the effects of acid rain on 750 lakes ands streams across Massachusetts ... said Paul J. Godfrey, director of the Acid Rain Monitoring project at the University of ... Read more
New concern about acid rain: trees' immune systems may be damaged by pollution. (Environment).
The Futurist; 11/1/2002; Cristol, Hope; 621 words ; Acid rain may be even more damaging to forests than previously thought: Not only does acid rain wilt and destroy trees' leaves and needles, but new ... life-sustaining metal nutrients from topsoil. The news comes from University of California-Riverside scientists ... forests may be more vulnerable ... Read more
ACID RAIN BILLS AGAIN FACE STIFF OPPOSITION
The Boston Globe; 2/19/1987; Dianne Dumanoski, Globe Staff; 616 words ; When he stuffed another acid rain bill into the Senate hopper a few ... tracking the long and wearying fight for acid rain controls, the prospects for the senator ... decidedly mixed. Although support for acid rain legislation has been growing in Congress ... Read more
New acid rain threat identified. (nitrate induced suffocation and light starvation of aquatic species)
Science News; 4/30/1988; Raloff, Janet; 652 words ; New Acid Rain Threat Identified Acid rain's primary threat to aquatic life has generally been seen as ... authors contend is an equally deadly but ignored impact of acid rain -- nitrate-induced suffocation and light starvation of aquatic ... Read more

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