As well it causes harm to our own race, because we eat these fish, drink this water and eat these

plants. It is a problem that we must all face and try to get rid of. However acid rain on it's own is

not the biggest problem. It causes many other problems.

Acid rain is all the rain, snow, mist etc. that falls from the sky onto the earth. Acid rain is

caused by today's industries. When products are manufactured many chemicals are used to create

it. However because of the difficulty and cost of properly disposing of these products they often

make there way into the atmosphere with little or no treatment. Acid rain was first considered to

be important about 20 years ago when scientists in Sweden and Norway first believed that acidic

rain may be causing great ecological damage to the planet. The problem was that by the time that

the scientist found the problem it was already very large. Detecting an acid lake is often quite

difficult. A lake does not become acid over night. It happens over a period of many years, some

times decades. The changes are usually to gradual for them to be noticed early. At the beginning

chlorine. In many parts of the world it is commonly found in the soil. If it enters the fish's

bottom of the rivers. What they found were many more dead fish. Many live and dead specimens

eggs were destroyed by fungi. When the pH went down to 5.1 they were almost gone. By the end

were taken back to labs across Norway. When the live specimens were examined they were

that scientist began to search for the reason. As the scientists continued to work they found many

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