Sentences with phrase «of acid rain in»

He encouraged me to explore and learn about wildlife behavior, but also the changes we saw — from the effects of acid rain in the Adirondacks to the glaciers in Alberta that had receded since my parents had visited decades earlier.

Calcium deficient fauna, poor conditions for freshwater fish and mercury in the drinking water is the long - term consequences of acid rain in the 70ies and 80ies.

But she has also been criticized on her environmental record, including her vote to reject Environmental Protection Agency carbon limits for coal - fueled power plants, a chief cause of acid rain in the Adirondack Park.

Pollution drifting over from midwest power plants is the leading cause of acid rain in the Adirondack Park.

Dr. Gene Likens, co-discoverer of acid rain in North America some 50 years ago, says the study is the first of its kind.

Not exact matches

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Founded in 1982 to fight against acid rain, AQLPA expanded its mandate in 1992 to fight against all forms of air pollution.

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.

Deregulation of heavy industry's air pollution has resulted in acid rain and dying lakes in both nations.

But declines are occurring in the absence of destruction of habitats, suggesting other causes such as pollution from pesticides, acid rain and increases in ultraviolet exposure or even change in climate (Blaustein & Wake 1990).

Climate change, smog, acid rain, dead zones and the ozone hole are real issues affecting the planet, and nitrogen pollution plays a key role in each of them.

Pulses of acid rain arriving in the stripers» spring spawning season may be the doom of this legendary inshore game and table fish

Granted, there are more benefits to reducing particulate and greenhouse gas emissions than just climate change, i.e. PM 2.5 which can be stuck in the human lung and cause cancer / respiratory issues, SO2 which contributes to acid rain (we've already eliminated the majority of this problem), as well as soot (nobody wants the surrounding area covered in ash).

«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.

The Golden State is at the vanguard in the United States in reducing auto emissions of nitrogen oxide gases, which help produce toxic smog and acid rain.

«I grew up in the days of acid rain.

Ammonia helps neutralize sulfuric acid and other acids in air pollution, so removing it from southern California skies could raise the risk of acid rain.

Additional moisture near coal - burning power plants accelerates the conversion of sulfur dioxide fumes into sulfuric acid, increasing acid rain in the area.

«EMEP's formation illuminates the importance of developing technological networks and international research projects on acid rain in furthering both détente among European countries as well as international research and policies for environmental protection,» she concludes.

But Warner, Dickerson and their colleagues found that successful legislation to reduce acid rain in the early 1990s most likely had the unintended effect of increasing gaseous ammonia.

The researchers also found a decrease, albeit less pronounced, in the other source of acid rain, nitrates, which come primarily from vehicle exhausts.

In her work, Rothschild finds that the impetus for cooperating across the Iron Curtain on air pollution monitoring came not from Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, as other historians have argued, but from a group of scientists and environmental officials in Norway working on acid rain in the early - to - mid-1970In her work, Rothschild finds that the impetus for cooperating across the Iron Curtain on air pollution monitoring came not from Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, as other historians have argued, but from a group of scientists and environmental officials in Norway working on acid rain in the early - to - mid-1970in Norway working on acid rain in the early - to - mid-1970in the early - to - mid-1970s.

And all of that production means that China is bearing the burden of the pollution that can go along with the manufacture of such renewable energy for other countries — whether the acid rain — forming sulfur dioxide emitted from making the steel in a wind turbine's blade or the noxious chemicals left over after manufacturing specialized silicon, or glass, that can turn sunshine into electricity.

The release of carbon and sulphur - rich gases from the blasted rock layers precipitated a global catastrophe in which fires raged, the sky darkened, Earth cooled and acid rain showered down.

Scientists also claim that the impact of the asteroid would have filled Earth's atmosphere with sulphur trioxide, subsequently creating a gas cloud that would have caused a mass amount of sulphuric acid rain to fall in just a few days, making the surface of the ocean too acidic for upper ocean creatures to live.

«We are in the process of messing up space, and most people don't realize it because we can't see it the way we can see fish kills, algal blooms, or acid rain,» he says.

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.

David began his career in the 1980s studying the effects of acid rain — a main ingredient of which is sulfur.

Today, the northeastern U.S. sees the most acid rain in the country because of density of both people and industry, as well as prevailing winds.

Once dissolved in large water droplets and frozen, however, it falls back to Earth as acid rain in a matter of hours.

If a volcano ejects vast quantities of water which freezes in the upper atmosphere, some of this may combine with sulphur dioxide to form droplets of sulphuric acid that quickly rain back to Earth.

The meeting was the first large - scale attempt to bridge the gap between scientists and policymakers on a wide range of atmospheric problems, including not just the greenhouse effect but also acid rain and the depletion of the protective layer of ozone in the stratosphere.

Similar scandals erupted over the effects of scores of industrial applications, ranging from sulfur dioxide and acid rain, to certain aerosols and the hole in the ozone layer, to leaded gas and cognitive impairment, to the granddaddy of them all, fossil fuels and global climate change.

Less than a third of the scientists in the laboratory's group studying the deposition of acid rain have agreed to move to Culham.

Concentrations of two other chemicals in the ice cores, vanillic acid (a chemical formed when conifer forests burn) and non — sea salt sulfur (a primary component in acid rain), helped distinguish between soot from natural sources and that from industrial pollution.

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.

Old stone buildings in Manhattan, such as Grand Central Station or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, would outlast every modern glass box, especially with no more acid rain to pock their marble.

«The government is spending around $ 4 billion in subsidies to promote the use of fossil fuels — that is to say we are spending billions to promote global warming and acid rain,» says MacNeill.

Environmental campaigner Sauven argues: «Some of the characters involved have previously worked to deny the reality of the hole in the ozone layer, acid rain and the link between tobacco and lung cancer.

In the 1980s, under conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney, Canada led the way in international policies to control acid rain and chlorofluorocarbons: the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is the most successful piece of international environmental legislation ever enacteIn the 1980s, under conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney, Canada led the way in international policies to control acid rain and chlorofluorocarbons: the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is the most successful piece of international environmental legislation ever enactein international policies to control acid rain and chlorofluorocarbons: the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is the most successful piece of international environmental legislation ever enacted.

Britain's continuing problems with acid rain, air pollution, waste management and other environmental headaches mean that there will be plenty of work for the laboratory in the years to come.

The Integrated Nitrogen Committee of the EPA's science advisory board, which held a June public teleconference on the issue of reactive nitrogen in the environment, has generated a draft report that lays out the details, including management options for nitric acid rain.

Similarly, researchers have traced nitric oxide rising from Kentucky and Tennessee and drifting toward the Great Smoky Mountains, where researchers have observed some of the worst acid rain and forest decline, says William H. Schlesinger, president of the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y.

The aim will be to target new cuts in emissions of the gases that cause acid rain, to give maximum benefit to the environment.

James O. Sickman, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Riverside, has conducted research on lakes in the Sierra Nevada — the most sensitive lakes in the U.S. to acid rain, according to the Environmental Protection Agency — and described human impacts on them during the 20th century.

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.

They have called attention to more or less «evenly distributed errors» across Lomborgs treatment of population, food, forests, air pollution, acid rain, climate change, and biodiversity loss, among other topics errors including all of the types I identified in his energy chapter, and more even while acknowledging, as I did, that in this potpourri Lomborg manages to get a few things right.

A British chemist coined the term «acid rain» in 1856, in the early throes of the industrial revolution, but it wasn't until the 20th century that the world took notice.

But activist Michael Karikpo of Oilwatch finds that classification to be «outrageous» — because routine flaring, which spews carcinogens such as benzene and triggers acid rain, is illegal in Nigeria.

It's been a quarter century since government regulations limiting emissions of sulfur and nitrogen oxides from coal - fired power plants began to neutralize the problem of acid rain, but lakes in the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada have been sluggish to recover.