Getty Images Sulphuric and nitric acid from the burning of fossil fuels fell as acid rain "In the '80s, essentially the message was that this was the largest environmental problem of all time ...

Sulfur is rarely found pure in the ground. It is an impurity which is removed from fossil fuels because it causes acid rain when fossil fuels are burned.

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to assess harms to endangered wildlife and plants when determining the national ...

Power stations fuelled by fossil fuels or nuclear fuels are reliable ... for living creatures and is also a major part of acid rain. The fuel for nuclear power stations is relatively cheap ...

The emission of greenhouse gases leads to global warming, smog, and acid rain and adversely affects public health ... Green investment involves shifting energy supply from fossil fuels to ...

This story appears in the July 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thirty years ago, the potentially disruptive impact of heat-trapping emissions from burning fossil fuels and rain forests ...

Renewable energy sources are plentiful and all around us. Fossil fuels - coal, oil and gas - on the other hand, are non-renewable resources that take hundreds of millions of years to form.

Detection of nitric oxide (NO) is important for monitoring air quality because the NO released in the combustion of fossil fuels contributes to acid rain and smog. In medicine, NO is an important ...