Getting to grips with acid rain

New Straits Times;  May 31, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Times 05-31-2007 Getting to grips with acid rain Byline: Ellen Whyte Edition: Main/Lifestyle...science curriculum regularly mentions acid rain, mostly along with pollution, the effects...If you aren't exactly sure what causes acid rain, want to conduct some experiments to...

What Causes `Acid' Rain?

The Washington Post;  April 5, 1988 ;     700+ words ......convinced that a kind of precipitation called acid rain can bring problems instead. Acid rain is just what it sounds like: rain that contains...found in varying concentrations in nature. Acid rain has more acid in it than clear water does...

Does acid rain hurt your car?

Consumers' Research Magazine;  January 1, 1996 ;     631 words ...Acid rain . . . can be just as damaging to a car...in Home Mechanix magazine. Chemicals in acid rain react with paint to form sulfuric and...cratering and etching in clear-coat finishes. Acid-rain damage can easily chop $1,000 off your...

ACID RAIN BILLS AGAIN FACE STIFF OPPOSITION

The Boston Globe;  February 19, 1987 ;     616 words ...When he stuffed another acid rain bill into the Senate hopper a few...tracking the long and wearying fight for acid rain controls, the prospects for the senator...decidedly mixed. Although support for acid rain legislation has been growing in Congress...

ACID RAIN DECK-STACKING

The Boston Globe;  January 15, 1987 ;     311 words ...In Florida, a shower of acid rain fell on BMW automobiles as they were...port until some progress is made on acid rain. According to The Orlando Sentinel...providing jobs for Jacksonville. Acid rain is formed from the sulfur-dioxide...

Is Acid Rain a Tempest In News Media Teapot?; Study Questioning Harm Gets...

The Washington Post;  January 14, 1991 ;     700+ words ......takes the conventional wisdom about acid rain and shoots it full of holes." According...and the media who have been portraying acid rain as one of those critical problems that...for all the debate over the effects of acid rain caused by industrial pollutants. In three...

TOURISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT: THE FIGHT AGAINST ACID RAIN

The Boston Globe;  May 21, 1989 ;     700+ words ......enlist in a crusade against a common enemy: acid rain. Canadians are fighting mad about the damage acid rain is causing our shared continent and want...border, is: "America -- Join Us Against Acid Rain." Acid rain, or, more accurately, acid...

Acid Rain

Earth Explorer;      700+ words ...Earth Explorer 02-01-1995 Acid Rain: Scourge From the Sky During the...of sulfuric acid and nitric acid--"acid rain." Both acids eat away metal and stone...Eastern Europe, pollutants causing acid rain were being sent into the atmosphere...

Acid Rain Already Covers 40% of China's Territory

China Chemical Reporter;  April 6, 1997 ;     201 words ......the state shows that the coverage of acid rain has been rapidly extended to around 40...has determined the present status of acid rain and its space-time distribution rules. The study proposes new methods to detect acid rain development, evaluates acid rain ...

Survey: Acid rain effects worsening

The Boston Globe;  May 16, 1993 ;     700+ words ...The damage from acid rain, an environmental menace to fish and...survey, which was conducted by the Acid Rain Monitoring Project at the University...offered a worrisome glimpse of the acid rain problem in the area. The survey consisted...

Cornell U. studies link acid rain with thrush breeding

University Wire;  September 5, 2002 ;     550 words ......Ornithology, shows that the effects of acid rain on the Wood Thrush, a North American...certain place, depending on the amount of acid rain received there. By adjusting for factors...strong, highly significant effect of acid rain on the predicted probability of breeding...

Acid rain; air quality, global change, or what?

National Forum;  January 1, 1990 ;     700+ words ...Acid Rain Air Quality, Global Change, or What? What are we doing about acid rain? During the last few years, literally dozens of bills designed to address the problem of acid rain have been introduced in the United States Congress...

SEN. SCHUMER: PRESIDENT'S BUDGET CUTS CONTINUE TO EAT AWAY AT VITAL...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 6, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Administration for threatening to cut a key acid rain monitoring program used across Upstate...Administration is planning to further gut anti-acid rain efforts by completely slashing funding...federal programs that work to combat acid rain across New York State and the country...

JUSTICES REFUSE TO ORDER US ACTION ON ACID RAIN

The Boston Globe;  June 9, 1987 ;     700+ words ......environmentalists said dims the hopes of eliminating acid rain soon. Massachusetts and other northeastern...comment, rejected the argument yesterday. Acid rain opponents vowed to continue fighting...bending over backward not to do anything on acid rain," said Douglas Foy, director of ...

DUKAKIS A FACTOR IN ACID RAIN PLAN CUOMO-CELESTE PROPOSAL

The Boston Globe;  June 7, 1988 ;     700+ words ......president and his strong commitment to ending acid rain helped persuade the governor of the nation...the impasse over legislation to control acid rain. "Sure, part of it is political realism...on a compromise approach to reducing acid rain. That realism, he added in a telephone...