Sentence examples for acid rainfall from inspiring English sources

In previous decades, the United States reduced acid rainfall and the levels of lead in gasoline through similar approaches, both at lower costs than predicted.

Fully 99% of the pollen matched only one plant: Melanthera nivea, a tough wildflower that can survive the volcano's acid rainfall, they write this month in The Pan-Pacific Entomologist.

Temperature, humidity, rainfall, and acid rain seemed to play minor roles for most samples.

Conversely, the insensitivity of fluorescence intensity and fluorescence wavelength maxima to variations in the pH of local rainfall suggests that acid rain over the study period (∼pH 5.6 to ∼ 4.5) had no discernable effect on the quantity and quality of DOM in karst soil and soil solution, likely being strongly buffered by soil carbonates.

Although rainfall drives thunderstorms on Earth, there is no rainfall on the surface of Venus (though sulfuric acid rain falls in the upper atmosphere, then evaporates around 25 km above the surface).

During the late 1900's, the Sahel region of Africa has been faced with problems resulting from... a. increasing desertification b. the lack of rainfall from the monsoons c. the effects of acid rain d.

"There must," he observed during the acid rain years, "be a mystique of the rain if we are ever to restore the purity of the rainfall".

Yet, to date, the effects of acid rain have not been investigated in karstic systems, which are expected to strongly buffer the pH of atmospheric rainfall.

Although not a "true" desert (rainfall there exceeds the maximum 1000 mm a year), precipitation mixing with drifting volcanic sulfur dioxide forms acid rain with a pH as low as 3.4, greatly hampering regional plant growth.

Acid rain.

Fossil-fuel combustion produces nitrogen oxides, which rise into the atmosphere and come down in rainfall as nitric acid.