In the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the streams are telling us a story about forest recovery following acid rain and logging. According to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

In 1983, the University of Massachusetts, through the UMass Amherst Water Resources Research Center, began monitoring the effects of acid rain on surface waters statewide and reporting their findings.

A volunteer with the Acid Rain Monitoring Project in 2014. The project, based at UMass Amherst, has been collected water quality data since 1983. (ARMP ) AMHERST -- In the 1970s and 1980s, acid rain ...

In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Sujay Kaushal of the University of Maryland reveals how acid rain has made rivers and streams less acidic. Sujay Kaushal is an associate professor of geology at the ...

Emissions regulations do have an environmental impact, according to a long-term study of acidic rainfall. A report detailing trends in acidic rainfall frequency and concentration over 25 years found ...

For decades, the concentration of dissolved organic matter, which is critical to aquatic ecosystem’s good health, has been rising in U.S. and European lakes. The trend has perplexed environmental ...

Acid rain, resulting from the atmospheric deposition of sulphur and nitrogen oxides, presents a multifaceted threat to plant health. Its corrosive nature directly damages foliar tissues by degrading ...

Researchers bushwhacked their way to remote parts of the pine barrens and Shelter Island last week to launch the first study of acid rain's impact on Long Island's ecosystem. Six sites in the Pine ...

Waist deep in a mountain stream, Pat Harmon sports a Ghostbuster-esque backpack labeled “LR-24 Electrofisher.” He’s accompanied by three net-equipped assistants. Their prey? The small, elusive and ...

If Iceland's active volcano gets even more active, Icelanders and air travelers won't be the only ones impacted. Gases from past large volcanoes have actually lowered Earth's temperatures, triggered ...

Depleted ecosystems, dwindling forests, contaminated drinking water and toxic soil. All due to what Canada's Environment Minister John Roberts called in 1980 "the most serious environmental threat to ...