"Every organism is interacting with rainwater." Researchers make gut-wrenching discovery after studying rainwater around the ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

Gene Likens, the scientist who discovered acid rain, warns that Trump administration's pollution protection rollbacks could ...

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 turned ...

Acid rain harms plants and wildlife by altering the pH levels of soils and water bodies — for example, acidification of aquatic ecosystems harms endangered whooping cranes by depleting their food ...

The Black Triangle gets its name from the coal burned by nearby power plants. Decades of acid rain generated by power-plant emissions have devastated the region's ecosystems. Yet the treeless ...

A new threat is here, and scientists say there's no way to stop it, as even remote parts of the world are seeing microplastic ...

Our state is part of the region that consistently leads the nation in emissions of acid rain-producing sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Pennsylvania is a leader in acid rain in the U.S. Acid ...

Activated carbon removes pollutants through adsorption, a process in which contaminants adhere to its porous surface.

NARROWS, Va. (WDBJ/Gray News) - Six people were injured Thursday in an acid spill at a chemical plant in Virginia. According to the Giles County Sheriff’s Office, the spill happened at the ...