What are harm full effects of acid rain?
The more accurate term is “acid precipitation”. High acidic components can occur not only in rain, but snow, fog, dew, etc. It’s not well known, but acid precipitation can kill an entire lake’s ecosystem. There are a number of “dead” lakes in the northern states of the U.S. and in Canada as well that are this way because of acid precipitation. Each year we learn more about just how damaging this event is — not only to the environment, but homes, historic buildings, and numerous aspects of our infrastructure. It isn’t directly responsible for killing forests like initially thought, but acid precipitation is incredibly damaging to trees. What it does is reduce a tree’s ability to fend off insects, produce productive growth and will actually increase the chance of unneeded forest fires. Acid precipitation isn’t tied to CO2 production (which is causing global warming), but rather heavy amounts of particle pollution coming from chimneys and smokestacks. The matter coming from these is most
