Air and water is what separates our planet earth, from any other plant we know, without these two vitally important forms of matter no living organisms would be able to survive. ... Studies conducted by the CSIRO Atmospheric Research Team in June '02, showed that road traffic was responsible for just over one third of dangerous and often toxic chemicals found in the Australian air. ... What right do humans have to fill the air with such dangerous and volatile chemicals threatening the existence of diverse communities of plant and animal species? ... It has been predicted from past recor...

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Acid rain is formed by pollution, which is released into the air. Electric utility plants and other sources produce this type of pollution. ... People who have asthma are more affected when there is an increase of acid pollution. ... There are many things we can do to reduce the problems of acid pollution. ... Another way that a lot of our pollution is caused is by creating electrical energy. ...

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Acid rain originates from pollution in the environment and leads to the deaths of many wildlife and trees. ... Acid rain forms when sulfur dioxide, mercury and nitrous oxide come from pollution into the air. ... Mainly the pollution comes from power plants that produce electricity. ... The pollution of the years is decreasing though. ... Every day, trillions of acidic particles are in the air and cause harm to the environment. ...

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Air temperature within the tropopause remains constant with increasing altitude. Stratosphere The stratosphere (22k jpeg) is the second major strata of air in the atmosphere. ... Urban and Regional Air Pollution What are the main pollutants in our air and how do they affect our health? How does air quality in Australia compare with that overseas? ... A number of pollutants affecting urban and/or regional air quality are listed in Table 1. ...

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Many of us don't take our Earth seriously and think that as long as pollution doesn't hurt us then we can go ahead and throw garbage on the ground or spill oil down the drain. Well too many people have that theory and they are killing off our Earth and also physically harming themselves from the air they breathe and the water they swim in. ... There are many different types of environmental pollution such as acid rain, global warming, desertification, overpopulation, and solid waste disposal. In the following paragraphs I will discuss what I can do to help prevent environmental pollu...

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Acid rain is caused when the sulfur and nitrogen oxides in air pollution combine with atmospheric moisture to produce highly acidic precipitation. ... NOx forms from nitrogen impurities in fuels and from nitrogen in the air used for combustion. ... For example, many trees in central European forests have died; however, these forests have also been subjected to other forms of pollution, including ozone. ... In recent years, rainfall acidity in both North America and western Europe has declined in response to pollution control legislation. Since passage (1970) of the Clean Air Act, U.S. emission...

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Modern society is becoming overwhelmed with great amounts of pollution from cars, factories and an overabundance of garbage. ... Acid rain is destroying the world=s lakes, air and ecosystem. ... Acid rain causes air quality to deteriorate. ... An inordinate amount of sulphur dioxide is let into the air, more than can be neutralized by nutrients in the air. ... Also the quality of air is depleting, increasing the amount of smog and pollution in our atmosphere. ...

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Modern society is becoming overwhelmed with great amounts of pollution from cars, factories and an overabundance of garbage. ... Acid rain is destroying the world's lakes, air and ecosystem. ... Acid rain causes air quality to deteriorate. Just as acid rain is damaging to water, it is equally damaging to air quality. ... Also the quality of air is depleting, with increasing amounts of smog and pollution in our atmosphere. ...

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PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT Nowadays protection of the environment is very important as the world is moving into a new era without considering any of the major problems of pollution with rapid industrialization. ... Their greatest threat is acid rain pollution, which is already severely affecting large areas of the conifer forests of northeast North America and Europe. ... Water supplies are threatened virtually worldwide with depletion and pollution. ... The maintenance of essential ecological processes (which rain from the global cycles of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and water to the loca...

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This study explains that Congress had made amendments to the Clean Air Act in 1990, that was supposed to cut the sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions in half in coal-fired power plants and other industries(2). ... These amendments are good and should help the pollution problem, but in the amendments the way to meet these goals is not provided. ... "The acid rain phenomenon clearly indicates that air pollution is not always a local problem as sources of SO2 and NOX emissions may be located hundreds of miles from where deposition occurs"(3). ...

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Acid rain is the term for pollution caused when sulfur and nitrogen dioxides combine with atmospheric moisture. ... More than 90% of the sulfur and 95% of the nitrogen emissions which occur in North America are due to the pollution created by humans.1 How Is Acid Rain Formed? ... It becomes sulfuric acid as it joins with hydrogen atoms in the air and falls down to earth. Oxidation occurs most in clouds, especially in heavily polluted air, where other compounds such as ammonia and ozone help to catalyze the reaction, increasing the amount of sulfur dioxide changing to sulfuric acid. ...

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The pollutants go up to the atmosphere and when it rains, it brings the pollution down with it. ... The scientific term for acid rain is acid deposition which means when the acid is taken from the air and is deposited on the earth. ... It is hard to determine where acid rain may fall next, because the wind from a polluted area could carry pollution to another area and the acid rain could fall there. ... The problem gets even bigger and bigger when pollution dumps more minerals in the soil. ...

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Around this time, the Environmental Defense Fund, also known as the EDF, was coming up with way of their own to approach the current problems with pollution, and they came up with the conclusion that people hate being told what to do, and they wanted to give people a chance to turn a profit. ... They were worried that proponents were less interested in cleaning up pollution, rather than doing it cheaply. ... Over 20 years later, since the signing of the Clean Air Act of 1990, this system of Cap and Trade is still allowing polluters to figure out the least expensive way to reduce acid rain em...

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Very small soil particles can be suspended in the air and carried away with the wind. ... These include pollution from agricultural pesticides, chemical spills, liquid and solid wastes, and acidification from the fall of acid rain. ...

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Acid rain is caused by the release of oxides of sulphur (SO2) and nitrogen (NOx) which when combined with the moisture in the air, may fall as rain with acidity of sulphuric or nitric acids. ... This occurs when it doesn't combine with moisture in the air to make acids, so it is deposited often in the ground or in leaves. ... They will continue to pollute since they have no other alternative to compete with other countries, unless they are aided sufficiently so they are well established and able to maintain a low-level of pollution. ...

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Fortunately, carbon monoxide reduction and pollution controls have reduced smog and ozone to a great extent in North America and Europe. ... Recent scientific concerns about freon's impact on the ozone layer, however, have come up against sharp resistance from consumers who worry that other chemical refrigerants may not have the same effectiveness as freon, which is the most popular "active ingredient- in car and home air conditioning systems (Makhijani, 79). However, EPA regulations adopted in 1999 and 2000 mandate checkups on car air conditioning systems and static a/c systems in comm...

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