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 ...

The United States could see the return of toxic acid rain, an environmental problem thought to have been solved decades ago, due to the White House's rollback of pollution protections, according to an ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Acid rain is a serious environmental problem caused by air pollution. It forms when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are released into the atmosphere, mainly from burning fossil fuels ...

The environmental crises of the past often seem to disappear—have problems like acid rain and smog been solved?

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: While acid rain caused by sulfur dioxide is an environmental threat of the past (at least, for now), a new kind of acid is proliferating in rain ...

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 ...

MOLINE, Ill. — We all remember seeing and smelling the thick, heavy, wildfire smoke during the month of June. Smoke so thick that the Quad Cities saw air quality levels plummet and even visibility was ...

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 ...