Something far worse than acid rain now falls from the sky all the time
A new threat is here, and scientists say there's no way to stop it, as even remote parts of the world are seeing microplastic ...
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The Permian extinction—when life nearly came to an end
She wants to compare tree pollen from a modern forest killed by acid rain with fossil pollen found in Permian rocks. Like a homicide detective at a crime scene, Looy sealed the cone in a plastic ...
Acid Rain Once Devastated Parts of America. 31 Government Cuts May Trigger Its Shocking Return.
With bipartisan leadership and cooperation between the U.S. and Canada, acid levels slowly reduced, and recent samples ...
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Erosion and Weathering
Rainwater also mixes with chemicals as it falls from the sky, forming an acidic concoction that dissolves rock. For example, acid rain dissolves limestone to form karst, a type of terrain filled ...
We got rid of acid rain. Now something scarier is falling from the sky.
In the 1970s, acid rain was one of the most serious environmental threats in North America and Europe. The air was so laden with pollution from coal power plants and cars at the time that it turned ...