Sentences with phrase «forests by acid»

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.

Not exact matches

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

The themes that Jim Henson's electric Kool - Aid acid trip tackles through its tacky sketches, instantly - dated guest stars, and cobwebbed musical interludes run the gamut from loneliness (a disturbing rendition of Jim Croce's «Time in a Bottle» in which a Muppet mutilates and pickles himself) to war (a version of Buffalo Springfield's «For What It's Worth» sung by forest animals being terrorized by mad redneck hunters) to exotic burlesques that predict the melancholia lacing The Dark Crystal and the eternally underestimated The Muppet Movie.

Several of the most disconcerting atmospheric problems include smog and air pollution, which are responsible for a higher incidence of respiratory diseases and death; acid rain, which contaminates numerous other ecosystems such as watersheds and forests; and finally, one particularly serious issue, climate de-stabilization caused by the accelerated rate of global warming.

In the years prior to 1985, several publications reported the scientific consensus that acid rain emitted by coal - fired electricity generation plants belching sulfur dioxide was destroying vast swathes of forests and lakes in the eastern United States.

As a result, the law costs utilities just $ 3 billion annually, not $ 25 billion, according to a recent study in the Journal of Environmental Management; by cutting acid rain in half, it also generates an estimated $ 122 billion a year in benefits from avoided death and illness, healthier lakes and forests, and improved visibility on the Eastern Seaboard.