In just 15 years, China has risen to the top of the global clean energy industry, leaving European countries trailing far ...

Acid rain pH. The pH scale ranges ... Serious acid rain is a problem in parts of China and elsewhere in Asia that are rapidly industrializing. What’s the Link Between Acid Rain and Climate Change?

Emissions of sulphur dioxide - the chemical that causes acid rain - were double the safe level, the report said. In some areas, rainfall was 100% acid rain, it added. "Increased sulphur dioxide ...

In the 1970s, acid rain was one of the most serious environmental threats in North America and Europe. The air was so laden with pollution from coal power plants and cars at the time that it ...

Studies show that rainwater in the U.S., Sweden, China, and even Antarctica contains PFAS at levels higher than what’s considered safe for drinking water. Unlike acid rain, we can’t simply ...

A number of studies, for example, have documented microplastics in rain falling all over the world — even in remote, unpopulated regions. For one 2020 analysis in the journal Science ...

Acid rain was a bipartisan divide in the U.S. under Ronald Reagan’s presidency. But it wasn’t a Democrat who finally took action; it was his Republican successor, George H.W. Bush.