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Environmental Science

The Effects of Acid Rain on Forest Ecosystems

Quick fact

In some regions, acid rain has leached away up to 50% of the calcium from forest soils, a nutrient trees need for cell structure and growth.

Why this is interesting

Imagine a forest slowly being poisoned from above—not by a spill, but by the very rain that should nourish it. How can something as gentle as rain become a destroyer of forests?