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 ...

acid rain became recognized as a regional environmental issue that affected Western Europe and eastern North America. Even before that, over 4 billion years ago, it is suspected that the air may ...

Now that sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions – the causes of acid rain – are greatly reduced in Europe and North America, a success based on capstone environmental legislation, it's easy to ...

The world feels like it’s being set alight; wildfires in Canada and Europe, floods in China ... An eye-opening example is acid rain; studying how the world tackled this geopolitically divisive ...

The cause? Acid rain. But flash forward to today, and the presence of sulfuric and nitric acids in precipitation throughout the continent has decreased tremendously, thanks to reductions in the ...

and one that could see the rain sweep across Europe. "It meant that some acid clouds moved towards the European continent and produced the failure of some crops," Dr Solana added. Whether this ...

Gases from past large volcanoes have actually lowered Earth's temperatures, triggered lung ailments, caused acid rain and thinned ... air traffic across northern Europe. The most dangerous gases ...

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Acid rain is now caused by nitric rather than sulfuric ... cycles with unintended consequences," he says. Since Gothenburg, Europe has decreased its nitrogen emissions by a third, whereas U.S ...