acid pollution

Peat forest destruction is causing sulphuric acid pollution of the rivers.

Something similar in principle has been tried in the United States, with the issue of tradable acid pollution permits.

Acid Earth: the global threat of acid pollution by John McCormick.

Surveys in various parts of the world have revealed that many species of fungi, including mushrooms, are dying out, possibly as a result of acid pollution.

Results Are Questioned They added that the survey was not designed to show the effect of nitrogen oxides or to discover short-term episodes of acid pollution.

After a century of acid pollution, they are now more legible in some details than the original, and the way they are displayed offers students a closer look at the reliefs than at the original site.

Due to this consistent acid pollution from the reservoir, most large fish spawn downstream of Red Bluff Diversion Dam, a dam also on the Sacramento River near Red Bluff, California.

Orimulsion, the new low-cost fuel imported from Venezuela [see EDs 51 and 52], is unsuitable for burning in power stations because of its unacceptably-toxic emissions and potential for increasing acid pollution, according to a report prepared for British Coal.

The International Herald Tribune of Aug. 10 quoted United States scientists as saying that acid pollution from Mexico's oil industry was largely responsible for the recent rapid deterioration of some of that country's Mayan monuments, notably those of the Yucatán peninsula.

By the time the Scandinavian countries invited Britain back to Stockholm for the 1982 Conference on Acidification, the sums had been done for exchange of acid pollution between Europe's nations, showing Britain to be the biggest producer and exporter of sulphur pollution in Western Europe.