Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Depleted ecosystems, dwindling forests, contaminated drinking water and toxic soil. All due to what Canada's Environment Minister ...

Acid rain remains one of the most persistent signatures of industrial air pollution, occurring when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides undergo complex atmospheric transformations to fall as diluted ...

Before the United States 1970 Clean Air Act, rainfall all over the country was acidic. As precipitation would fall from the sky, it would mix with gases from industrial plants, emissions from cars, ...

There's been encouraging progress over the past few decades in reversing the effects of acid rain in the Adirondacks. Just this week, state conservationists announced that brook trout have been found ...

Black acid rain, which can form after burning large amounts of crude oil, is a toxic mixture of fuel byproducts and atmospheric condensation. This form of precipitation occurs when combustion-derived ...

PONTIAC -- Shawna Elmore, a Pontiac Township High School senior, read the marble gravestone of a child buried in Northwest Pontiac Cemetery. "It makes me kind of sad, looking at stones about children, ...

The Ohio Department of Agriculture denied that the Feb. 3 freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, caused acid rain to pour down on farmlands. Although the controlled burn of vinyl chloride ...