A few years ago the study of the effects of atmospheric deposition on forest ecosystems reached beyond the scientific sphere and the term "acid rain" was coined. This problem, which ignores ...

A few years ago the study of the effects of atmospheric deposition on forest ecosystems reached beyond the scientific sphere and the term "acid rain" was coined. This problem, which ignores ...

A legacy of acid rain has acidified forest soils throughout the northeastern US, lowering the growth rate of trees. In an attempt to mitigate this trend, in 1999 scientists added calcium to an ...

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 ...

Acid rain effects can be devastating, particularly to forests and aquatic ecosystems, ... As in bodies of water, acid rain falling in a forest causes the release of toxic substances like aluminum.

Gene Likens met us at the forest to talk about some of the discoveries they've made over the past 50 years. ... Discovering Acid Rain At The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest 12:59 ...

A forest killed by acid rain in Poland, 2008. David Woodfall/ZUMA. Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily.

Remember acid rain? In the 1970s and ‘80s, scientists found that rain 100 times more acidic than normal was decimating forests in parts of the Northeast. Today, the recovery is impressive.

That’s not to say acid rain is completely solved. Forest ecosystems will take far longer to recover than lakes. But with years of improvement, Karen Roy, ...

Good news on the environment front, folks: the effects of acid rain on forests in the northeastern US and eastern Canada are finally starting to reverse, nearly forty years after the United States ...

The group closely tracks acid rain in the Adirondacks because it is the world’s largest, intact deciduous forest ecosystem, saying it has historically suffered the worst acid rain damage in the U.S.