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What is Acid Rain and What Causes It?
Wet deposition refers to acidic rain, fog, and snow. As this acidic water flows over and through the ground, ... back to earth through dry deposition. The wind blows these acidic particles and gases onto buildings, cars, homes, and trees. Dry ... bring back lakes and streams more quickly. Limestone or lime (a naturally-occurring basic compound) can be added to acidic lakes to "cancel out ...
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The Green Lane: Acid rain and water
Lakes that have been acidified cannot support the same variety of life as healthy lakes. As a lake becomes more acidic ... in the highly acidic waters. This explains why some acidic lakes only have older fish in them. A good catch of adult fish in such a lake could mislead an angler into thinking that all is well. Other effects of acidified lakes ...
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Pop-up - Learn More - Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
National Surface Water Survey (NSWS), acid rain caused acidity in 75 percent of the acidic lakes and about 50 percent of the acidic streams. One of the most acidic lakes ... as lakes. Approximately 580 of the streams in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain and over 1,350 of the streams in the Mid-Atlantic Highlands (mid-Appalachia) are acidic, primarily due to acidic ...
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Effects of Acid Rain - Surface Waters and Aquatic Animals | Acid Rain | US EPA
In the Adirondacks, the percentage of acidic lakes is significantly higher when it includes smaller lakes. Streams flowing over soil with low buffering capacity are as susceptible to damage from acid rain as lakes ...
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Science and the Environment Bulletin: Acid Rain Still Plaguing Lakes and Loons
SO2 reductions. A study of 152 lakes in southeastern Canada indicates that only 41 per cent are less acidic today than they were 20 ... cent have not changed, and 9 per cent are actually more acidic. Scientists estimate that to protect all of these ecosystems would ... rate of decline was more extreme on lakes with high acid levels than on well-buffered lakes—especially in recent years. One reason ...
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About Our Great Lakes - NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab (GLERL)
Our Great Lakes - NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab (GLERL)        About Our Great Lakes Educational Programs Community Programs Career Information Great Lakes Sea Grant Extension Office About Our Great Lakes: ... in the Great Lakes region vary due to the large size of the watershed. In the northern regions the ground consists of granite bedrock beneath a thin layer of acidic soils. The ...
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Wetlands in the Great Lakes Region
Typical plants include rushes, reeds, cattails and lily pads. Swamps are wooded wetlands characterized by conifers, hardwoods or shrubby vegetation. Bogs are areas with minimal water flow, highly acidic ... orchids and insect-eating plants are typical. Fens are similar to bogs but with less acidic soil, due to more ground and surface water flowing through. Sedges and low shrubs ...
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Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands: Science and Conservation – Canadian Wildlife Service, Ontario Region
Great Lakes coastal wetlands. Swamps are wetlands dominated by trees and shrubs, with standing water, limited drainage and often neutral or slightly acidic soils. Marshes are wetlands ... of the wetlands located in Great Lakes coastal areas are marshes. Bogs are peat-accumulating wetlands which trap precipitation as the only water source, typically have acidic soils and water, and ...
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Freshwater Lakes
The acidity of water of freshwater lakes and streams ... acidic as a consequence of the underlying geology can place additional stresses on ecosystems dependent upon such freshwater environments. Lakes ...
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Walking Ambae, Vanuatu – hiking, trekking, mountains, cloud forest, volcano, crater lakes
Walking Ambae, Vanuatu – hiking, trekking, mountains, cloud forest, volcano, crater lakes Walking Vanuatu on Ambae Visiting Ambae's Crater Lakes The summit of Ambae is a large area with three volcanic crater lakes on top. Lake Manaro Ngoru ('ngoru' means dry) can flood during cyclones but this crater is generally dry. Lake Vui ('vui' means poison) is large, turquoise-blue and acidic. Lake ...
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