“Acid Rain 30 Years On” (editorial, Aug, 24) suggests that the lesson of acid rain is that “good legislation can deflect and even reverse an environmental disaster.” This is true. But there is another ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the 1980s, the dying red spruce trees of New England—many of them taller than ...

If Canada ever adopts a cap-and-trade system to restrain greenhouse-gas emissions, it should learn from the difficulties that the anti-acid-rain system in the United States is now running into - after ...

A SCHOOL prank left a girl needing medical treatment after her drink was spiked with acid. The teenager drank hydrochloric acid during science lesson at a Hampshire secondary school. She was ...