Those of us who are non-millennials may remember back to the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s when the hottest environmental issue was acid rain. In fact, acid rain generated as much controversy and ...

Thirty-five years ago, the waters of Lake Colden in New York's Adirondack Mountains were found to be too acidic to support fish, making the picturesque, high-altitude body of water one of the ...

Acid rain may have been an environmental cause célèbre in the 1980s, after scientists “observed the increase in acidity of some lakes and streams” caused by pollutants, but, decades later, it’s still ...

Remember acid rain? Resulting largely from the smokestack emissions of coal-fired power plants, acid rain was a serious environmental concern in the 1980s. Studies showed that because of the ...

Remember the big “acid rain” scare during the 1970s and 1980s attributing damage to lakes and forests to emissions from Midwestern utilities? If so, did you ever hear the results of a more than ...

Acid rain is a term that refers to not just rain but also other forms of precipitation such as snow, hail, sleet, and fog that has a higher acidity than normal. Acid rain is caused by the burning of ...

Studies in Scotland and Wales show that streams still have high levels of acidity from pollution in the 1970s and 1980s, despite efforts to clean them. In Wales, more than 12,000 km of streams and ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the 1980s, the dying red spruce trees of New England—many of them taller than ...

Just when you thought it was safe to go out in wet weather, acid rain "may have a sequel", said Popular Mechanics, and "like most sequels, it's arguably worse". And it might not have a happy ending ...

To forestall policy on climate change, the Wall Street Journal editorial board routinely downplays scientific consensus, overstates the cost of taking action, and claims that politics, not science, ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Brook trout have been discovered in a high-elevation Adirondack Mountain lake for the first time since the lake was declared... Oct 08, 2019 — ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Brook trout have ...