A new threat is here, and scientists say there's no way to stop it, as even remote parts of the world are seeing microplastic ...

The air was so laden with pollution from coal power plants and ... worse in its potential damage to fresh‐water lakes and fish and tourism.” A few decades later, acid rain had largely disappeared.

President Trump's EPA administrator aims to roll back environmental protections in an effort to reduce the agency's spending.

In 1990, the Clean Air Act was updated by Congress to eliminate acid rain by reducing power plant pollution. Unfortunately, ...

Gene Likens, the scientist who discovered acid rain, warns that Trump administration's pollution protection rollbacks could ...

Several of the environmental benefits Americans experience today -- clean air, clean water, clean rain -- could soon be in ...

As pollution and sulfuric acid choked North American skies in the 1970s and 80s, a bipartisan, transnational agreement spearheaded by the Environmental Protection Agency combatted acid rain ...

Nitrate fertilisers are very soluble in water and are easily washed off fields by the rain and then into rivers ... some animals are adapted for surviving in polluted conditions, for example ...

Water pollution in the San Francisco Bay area.Belinda Rain/EPA By the 1970s ... as a "'dead sea,'" The New York Times reported. Acid waste lightens the water here. It was also dumped in the ...