Sentences with phrase «by acid rain»

So please indulge me for a pararaph... I find the following realization — based on damage to ground - nesting birds» eggs by acid rain — quite convincing.

It was caused by acid rain from England, Rhur and Saar.

The problem was his research showed the decline in Maple Syrup production was not caused by Acid Rain, but two natural cyclical events.

For example, because the mass balance argument says nothing about absolute numbers or attribution it may be that we are also — for example — destroying carbon - fixing plankton, reducing the breaking of waves and hence mechanical mixing with the upper ocean, releasing methane in the tundra which was previously held by acid rain and which can now be converted to CO2, or it may be we are just seeing a deep current, a tiny bit warmer than usual because of the MWP, heating deep ocean clathrate so that methanophage bacteria can devour it and give off CO2.

(the vegetation killed by acid rain emitted from the copper smelters of earlier times.)

Forests are also being destroyed by acid rain resulting from our pollution - causing activities and through the introduction of disease and invasive species.

Its limitation, however, is that it reacts with and is eroded by acidic solutions, and various limestone buildings and statues have been damaged by acid rain.

The study was set across a range of soil degradation caused by acid rain, which is a major stressor for sugar maple and a chronic issue in the Adirondacks.

In the 1980s fog grabbed attention again in the United States when researchers found it was contributing to the damage caused by acid rain.

By FRED PEARCE On 1 March, negotiations begin for a new international treaty to limit the damage caused to the environment by acid rain.

It is estimated that the country is losing some 8 percent of its wealth each year to pollution, with the toll including everything from crops destroyed by acid rain to spiraling health costs due to poor air and water quality.

One - third of its land has been hit by acid rain, according to the head of SEPA.

«We applaud Congresswoman Stefanik and all of her colleagues for their efforts to secure federal funding for monitoring whether clean air regulations are working, and for restoring Adirondack lakes damaged by acid rain,» said Adirondack Council Executive Director William C. Janeway in a statement.

We have, for example, already taken some measures to deal with one of the probable causes of the growing holes in the ozone layer, and to reverse the destruction of European forests by acid rain.

They see an old consensus about what it is essential to know eroded by the acid rains of professional specialization.

Not exact matches

The studies showed that acid rain starved lake trout by killing smaller organisms that made up their main food supply.

Another experiment funded by the now defunct Alberta's Oilsands Environmental Review Project (AOERP) changed the global politics of acid rain.

A new study shows streams and rivers up and down the East Coast are threatened by a legacy of acid rain and the impact of human activities.

Overall, the Clean Power Plan was expected to reduce acid rain another 25 percent in the Northeast by 2030, Janeway said.

There, temperatures climbed as high as 42 °C, and an acid rain — caused by sulfur dioxide fumes from the volcano — occasionally lashed the upper reaches of the mountain.

A known health hazard and contributor to acid rain, sulfur dioxide (SO2) is one of six air pollutants regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Such technology could cut acid rain — causing sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent, smog - forming nitrogen oxides by 75 percent, and — ultimately — capture more than 80 percent of the CO2 normally produced by combustion, storing it in nearby depleted oil fields by 2015.

The concentrated gas is «scrubbed» by sulfur - absorbent materials to remove the compounds that cause acid rain.

Clinton anticipated complaints that the Administration's proposed programs would crimp economic growth by pointing out that similar objections were raised against efforts to reduce acid rain.

The main cause of acid rain is sulfur dioxide released by burning fossil fuels.

Emissions of nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide, the main sources of acid rain pollution, also fell by 38 percent and 14 percent, respectively.

That sulfur dioxide market, run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has reduced sulfur dioxide levels by 40 percent since 1992 by allowing companies to buy and sell the right to emit the acid - rain forming pollution from coal - burning plants, which has increased the acidity of lake waters throughout the region.

Now new research funded by the NH Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES) at the University of New Hampshire College of Life Sciences and Agriculture indicates that lakes in New England and the Adirondack Mountains are recovering rapidly from the effects of acid rain.

Lohmann notes that the acid rain program so often cited by carbon market proponents as a success story did not allow offsets.

The Clean Air Act should be emulated by China and India where acid rain and air pollution are ruining the environment and making people sick.»

Government scientists from throughout Europe will meet in Geneva under the UN banner to thrash out a successor to the 1984 agreement, which is known as the ’30 per cent club» because it required nations to cut their emissions of sulphur dioxide, the main cause of acid rain, by 30 per cent.

And that's just in the United States: as other countries increase energy production by incinerating fossil fuels, acid rain is on the rise.

To make up for having their roots exposed, some lineages adopted a kind of water - saving photosynthesis called crassulacean acid metabolism that likely helped them survive only on fog and rain; it increased their diversification rate by a remarkable 20.3 %.

The US is already reducing acid rain by running a market in permits to emit sulphur dioxide.

Acid rain arises when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides (NOx), emitted by burning fossil fuels, react with water droplets in the air to form sulfuric and nitric aAcid rain arises when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides (NOx), emitted by burning fossil fuels, react with water droplets in the air to form sulfuric and nitric acidacid.

The translation is that the little bugs that make methane in swamps get out - competed by other bugs that like acid rain (which is related to sulphate aerosols — mainly from power stations)-- so more industrial pollution, less methane emission (everything else being equal).

At once genre movie and psychodrama, Nichols's film unfolds in a stretch of rural Ohio where a blue - collar husband and father (brilliantly played by Michael Shannon) finds himself suddenly plagued by visions of the rapture: strange clouds darkening the sky, acid rain sheeting down from the heavens, flocks of birds in panicked flight.

Limbs fly high as blades swing out from wall traps triggered by the hordes that storm your castle's corridors, and flesh melts as acid rains down.

Detail of «Down Pour (Acid Rain),» 2010 (garden hoses, plastic tubes with oil glaze, brass ends on wood panel) by Lynn Aldrich at Jenkins Johnson Gallery of San Francisco and New York.

The translation is that the little bugs that make methane in swamps get out - competed by other bugs that like acid rain (which is related to sulphate aerosols — mainly from power stations)-- so more industrial pollution, less methane emission (everything else being equal).

Two, there seems to be a reproducible methanogenesis poisoning effect by sulfuric acid deposition (acid rain), caused by the stimulation of sulfate - reducing bacteria displacing the methanogens.

Could you translate this into English: «there seems to be a reproducible methanogenesis poisoning effect by sulfuric acid deposition (acid rain), caused by the stimulation of sulfate - reducing bacteria displacing the methanogens.»

This would include costs like storing and monitoring nuclear waste indefinitely, CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by fossil fuels, nitrous oxides and sulfur oxides from coal degrading the environment through acid rain, maintaining a large military to protect our oil supply lines from the middle east, pollutants entering water supplies from solar panel manufacture, pollutants generated by drilling for gas, etc., etc..

Its rogues gallery of photos of particularly suspect weather stations has been credited by many meteorologists and climatologists as a wake - up call for the need for better monitoring (an issue that affects many other realms, from monitoring acid rain to tracking flood risks):

Acid rain also causes mercury poisoning by leaching mercury from rocks and making it available in a form that can be taken up by organisms.

NOx, which are produced by combustion, such as in fossil fuel vehicles, is one of the key components of both smog and acid rain, and the billboards are said to «reverse the equivalent of 5,285 vehicles» worth of NOx emissions per month.

Would it be true that most sulfuric acid is neutralized by terrestrial buffers when it rains, thereby limiting its effect on ocean pH beyond just the constraints inherrent in its small concentrations?

The politics of the ozone issue were transformed by the presence of CFC substitutes, and political success of acid rain cap - and - trade was enabled by the cost certainty ceiling of scrubbing technologies.

From the («lay - scientist», real scientist wanna - be) guy who you Honored by re-enforcing my — much decried by the other bloggers — observation that, by using SO2 to «Geoengineer» our way out of having to use Good Sense to solve our Most Pressing of Planetary Issues, would only lead to more Acid Rain, Ocean Acidification, and — ultimately, or so I conjectured — the loss of our Primary source of the Oxygen that we all need to Breathe — Phytoplankton; I must say that I TRULY APPRECIATE what you do!