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ACID RAIN & WATER DEGRADATION
source: darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/
bio65/lec14/b65lec14.htm
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Acid rain destroys plants and animals in several different ways…
Acidification of lakes directly kills algae, invertebrates, amphibians, and ultimately fish:- over 200 lakes in the Adirondack Mountains of New York are now unfit for fish;
- 7,000 lakes in Ontario are so acidic that most of the fish in them have died;
- in southern Norway, all lakes in a 13,000 sq. kilometre area are devoid of fish, with 80% of the lakes are either dead or on the critical list;
- in southern Sweden, 18,000 lakes now support no fish life. At the same time, it has been estimated that around 1/3 of the country’s 300,000 kilometres of waterways were markedly acidified.
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