Acid Rain Environmental Effects

In Chicago, acid rain has been corroding many statues, buildings, and monuments. Acid rain can do more than just burn materials, it can also destroy them. Buildings have been corroding for years on end, which makes them unstable and hazardous. This has become more and more of a problem throughout the years and has not been improving. Acid rain also creates a gypsum coating on materials that is insoluble and remains as a coating on the surface of a material (Allaby, 2003, pgs. 84-95). As a result of acid rain buildings will become uninhabitable and unsafe for people in the buildings and people in the vicinity of the building. Acid rain has very negative effects not only on buildings but to people and nature. The chemical substances in acid rain

When President Richard Nixon was in charge, the whole environmental policies started to properly rise in American. Back in 1989 when President Bush issued what would the following year be called the Clean Air of 1990, the United States was taking notice in world climate. Over the years, the country as a whole has strayed from putting emphasis on these issues. Graphs show us that we did better back in 1990 than we did in 2004. Compared to many other countries such as Germany, Japan, Canada, UK, Italy, France, and Australia, the United States releases an incredible amount of more greenhouse emissions. President Bush wanted to take care of three major issues of the time that would benefit every American, “The President proposed legislation designed to curb three major threats to the nation 's environment and to the health of millions of Americans: acid rain, urban air pollution, and toxic air emissions.” (United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2015). Acid rain is something that harms plants, marine life, and humans, it has high levels of nitrate and sulfur dioxide. Too much of acid rain can begin to kill species because of its toxic chemicals. Professor Pecorella 2015 on a class lecture of public opinion said that,“public opinion reacts to action”,since this is true, then this would validate what EPA does because the majority of people do believe in global warming. The Environmental Protection Agency would help ensure a safer future for America, one that would allow

     “North Americans have been smelting ore and burning fossil fuels for generations. In the past, the gases went up ordinary chimneys or small smoke stacks, to descend upon near by areas and pollute them,” states author, Robert Collins. Almost everyone knows what acid rain is and has a vague idea of the consequences that exist as a cause of it. Most people however do not realize the severity of acid rain. The essay “Acid Rain: Scourge from the Skies” by Robert Collins was very effective in showing the true severity of acid rain. By using excellent developmental devices, Robert Collins was able to write an effective essay that is appealing to today’s society, as well as

Through the advancement of technology, the issue of the air surrounding the earth might have been one of the most often matters to be brought up and discussed among scientists and engineers. Acid rain is one of the more serious environmental problems and it is closely related to the air pollution. Nowadays, it has affected large part of US, Europe and Canada. People start to be concerned about acid rain since it is getting worse in the passed years. The effect of the acid rain most often leads to another bad effect. For example, the acid rain will cause the lake and streams to be acidic. Thus, it will also affect the ecosystem inside the water.

Acid rain causes a cascade of effects that harm or kill individual fish, reduce fish population numbers, completely eliminate fish species from a water body, and decrease biodiversity. As acid rain flows through soils in a watershed, aluminum is released from soils into the lakes and streams located in that watershed. So, as pH in a lake or stream decreases, aluminum levels increase. Both low pH and increased aluminum levels are directly toxic to fish. In addition, low pH and increased aluminum levels cause chronic stress that may not kill individual fish, but leads to lower body weight and smaller size and makes fish less able to compete for food and habitat. Acid rain can hurt the environment in many ways one that gets affected by acid rain

208). The problems exist all over the world and harms our eco system, lakes, plants, animals and even human beings. There are many things that can be done to eliminate or even reduce the effects of acid rain. Congress did create the Acid Rain Program in 1990 to control and reduce acid rain. They also enacted the Clean Air Act to control pollution. They enacted policies that would monitor and reduce emissions for acid depositions, implemented energy efficiency and applied more alternative energy sources that would reduce acid rain to our environment (Cherrran, 2013, p. 1). However, as this problem continues, there is so much more we can do to reduce or even eliminate this problem. One way to reduce acid rain would be to lower our energy consumption. We all need to take advantage of using solar power and electric cars if at all possible. Factories and power plants need to continue to

Burning of fossil fuel in industries and transport sections, industrialization and urbanization have led to increase concentration of gaseous and particulate pollutants in the atmosphere leading to air pollution. The increased used to tall stacks for power plants and industries; atmospheric emissions are being transported regionally and even globally. Rain is one of the essential ingredients for human life. Although rain is naturally acidic, it is being increasingly acidified by pollution from homes, factories, power stations and cars. The term used to describe the problem is "acid rain". Acid rain has become a major environmental concern for several decades, it has broad economic, social and medical implications and has been called unseen plague of industrial age. The major components of acid rain is sulphur dioxide, sulphur trioxide, carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide dissolves in rain. These components deposited as dry and wet depositions. One obvious consequence of acid rain is corrosive effect on exposed stone and metal structures, but there are also many biological that are not obvious. However, like many environmental problems, acid deposition is caused by accumulative actions of millions of individual people. It may not been seem as though acid rain is much as an issue, but it can cause more than you can imagine.

When people here about acid rain they probably say “why should I care” and “it’s not effecting me”, well that’s were there wrong. People fail to realize the obvious reasons why it affects them. Trees are one of the important things affected by acid rain. Trees provide people with oxygen, paper, and most importantly food. Without these it would be basically impossible to survive. Acid rain also affects waterways. Many people don’t care about this because they might not live by any lakes, rivers, or even oceans. But what people don’t realize is waterways are what waters your plants, provide you with nutrient rich soil, and where your seafood comes from. One more thing that acid rain affects is soil. Soil is one of the most vital things to the earth. Without useable and health soil we would not be able to have plants and trees. Without those you can’t have livestock, fruits and vegetables, or clean air. All of which are

Acid rain is a very big pollution problem in the world. It has killed fish and other aquatic life in many lakes and streams. It harms human health, disfigures monuments and erodes buildings, and, along with other pollutants, threatens forests. The story of acid rain can be compared to the plot of a science fiction movie. In the 1950s an invisible force begins to destroy lakes and rivers, killing trout and salmon. By the 1960s it is harming the waters of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. High-altitude forests are beginning to fade away. City statues are gradually eaten away. The appearance from the damage of the aliens is starting to appear all over. Just as in science fiction movies, the authorities refuse to warn

According to the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (2014), pure rain has a pH of about 5.6 while most acid deposition boasts a lower pH of 4.2 to 4.7. If scientists notice a significant

Acid rain is a widespread problem, one that plagues the environment the world over. Acid Rain is the resultant by-product of burning fossil fuel which in-turn mixes with moisture in the atmosphere and falls to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, etc. Acid deposition is a more precise name than acid rain because acid can precipitate in several forms, as stated previously. It can also combine with dry particles and fall to the ground; therefore it is called dry deposition whereas acid coming down in rain is called wet deposition.

The world we live in today has become a nest for pollution, toxic waste and environmental deterioration. In order to improve our planet, acid rain is a main factor to be considered and must be controlled before the damage worsens.

Throughout history humans have been polluting this earth without even knowing it; so far managing to dump over five trillion pieces of trash into the oceans, which is almost three hundred thousand tons of garbage. This harmful act is creating hazardous effects on the environment, killing over fourteen million birds, and one hundred thousand sea mammals. The environment is coming back for revenge on humans by contaminating drinking water. The quality of drinking water is getting significantly worse for humans compared to what it was one hundred years ago Where the industrial revolution created new sources of water pollution, resulting in the clean water act of nineteen forty eight. This was the first law to regulate pollution, and set the

One hundred twenty years ago the British scientific August Smith, just focus his studies on air in Manchester, England, he created a network of monitoring the quality of rain in northern Europe, where he recognized acid rain. During the last ten years, acid rain have been an important cause of concern because it continues to pollute large areas of our planet. Acid rain occurs (following the direction of the link) in the areas of important industrial emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx).

Acid rain is a result of air pollution that includes any form of precipitation with acidic elements like nitric or sulphuric acid . Many different chemicals are produced when any type of fuel is burnt. The smoke that is emitted from a car exhaust does not only contain the sooty grey particles that is visible to eyes but also contains many harmful invisible gases, which can be dangerous to the environment. Polluting gases are produced due to combustion as factories, cars and power stations all burn fuels. Some of the gases, especially nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulphur dioxide (SO2) react with tiny droplets of water (H2O) in clouds to form nitric and sulphuric acids. The rain that falls from these clouds is slightly acidic and therefore is known as the acid rain. Acid rain is a type of acid deposition that can appear in both wet and dry forms including rain, snow, hail and even dust. These depositions can be carried by wind over long distances and have various harmful effects on the soil, aquatic environment, forests, vegetation cover and plantations, architecture and buildings as well as public health . The main focus of this report is about the major damages to the buildings and architectures caused by acid rain. This report is also going to discuss the strategies or recommendations that can be used for the prevention of acid rain.