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 is a very broad term. It encompasses not only rain but also other forms of precipitation including fog, hail, sleet, snow, dust, and gas. It can even cause haze or smog, contributing to the ...

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 went from being a pollution disaster to an environmental success story. How did scientists manage to prove that acid rain existed, and find a way to stop it? A group of kids canoeing in ...

Acid rain is now caused by nitric rather than sulfuric acid--and it comes from more sources than the earlier acidic precipitation did The acid rain scourge of the '70s and '80s that killed trees and ...

Acid rain is any form of precipitation that contains high levels of nitric and sulfuric acids. First coined by Scottish chemist Robert Angus Smith in 1852, acid rain can also occur in the form of snow ...

On the latest episode of the Global News podcast What happened to…? Erica Vella revisits the biggest environmental crisis of the 1980s, acid rain. In the 1980s, the threat of acid rain in Canada and ...