The region's legacy of acid rain is clearly visible in the black crust on the gravestones at the Madison Street Cemetery in Hamilton, New York. Cassandra Willyard Geologist Rich April climbs the small ...

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 ...

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 sucks, particularly if you run a fancy university with lots of lovely statues outside. If you’d like to try and predict when it’s going to occur, you might like this project from [Mohammad ...

Acid rain is a serious environmental problem occurring all over the world, particularly in large swaths of the United States and Canada. As the name suggests, it indicates precipitation that is more ...

Democrats and Republicans once worked together to solve an environmental crisis. That sentence, admittedly, reads a bit like the start of a fairy tale. Long gone are the days when Republicans seemed ...

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 ...

A diverse array of trilobites ruled the seas for almost 300 million years, until they vanished at the end of the Permian period. Chip Clark Roughly a quarter of a billion years ago, an apocalypse ...

After surviving earthquakes and molten lava, residents of Hawaii’s Big Island now have new threats to worry about: steam-driven explosions, hazardous volcanic smog and acid rain. The US Geological ...