NORFOLK, Va. — Acid rain is a serious environmental problem caused by air pollution. It forms when sulfur dioxide and ...

It’s a remarkable turnaround in since acid rain’s discovery in the U.S. by a young professor at Dartmouth ... even ending up in “Captain Planet,” the kids’ cartoon. Despite the ...

Acid rain has a pH around 4, while battery acid is as far down on the scale as it can get — 0. Applying our new knowledge of the logarithmic scale, we know that battery acid is 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 ...

Acid rain went from being a pollution disaster to an environmental success story. How did scientists manage to prove that acid rain existed, and find a way to stop it? A group of kids canoeing in ...

Acid rain is likely to fall from the skies in Hawaii over the next few days — but scientists say it won't be harmful and is far from the main volcano hazard residents should worry about. And vog ...

After surviving earthquakes and molten lava, residents of Hawaii’s Big Island now have new threats to worry about: steam-driven explosions, hazardous volcanic smog and acid rain.

Iceland's volcano could follow the pattern of past large blasts that spewed gases altering Earth's temperatures, triggering lung ailments, causing acid rain and thinning the ozone layer.

The gases released by the volcanic eruption could cause acid rain on the island. Ground cracking extends across Highway 130, in Puna, Hawaii, on on May 7. U.S. Geological Survey via Getty Images ...