When acidic components get into rain or other forms of precipitation, acid rain can make trees die. It won't hurt you to walk or swim in acid rain, but the particles that cause it may hurt your lungs ...

Decades ago, acid rain was one of the world's most alarming environmental crises. Pollution from coal power plants and cars made rainfall so toxic that it killed fish, wiped out forests, and even ...

A new field study reveals that biochar, a carbon-rich material made from plant residues, can significantly restore soil health and nitrogen availability in forests affected by acid rain. The findings ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Reports are emerging of black rain falling over parts of Iran in the hours ...

The Ohio Department of Agriculture denied that the Feb. 3 freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, caused acid rain to pour down on farmlands. Although the controlled burn of vinyl chloride ...

Democrats and Republicans once worked together to solve an environmental crisis. That sentence, admittedly, reads a bit like the start of a fairy tale. Long gone are the days when Republicans seemed ...