Acid Rain
Acid RainThe Effects of Acid Rain on Lakes and Trees
Acid rain has long been argued by society�s most formidable minds. It indirectly
destroys ecosystems that surround forests and lakes (Taylor, 26). People need to make decisions
dealing with the destruction of nature and the role acid rain plays in it. Acid rain destroys
millions of forests and lakes (Taylor, 26 ). Studies show that acid rain is one of the largest
contributing factors in the death of forests and lakes.
Acid rain indirectly kills millions of acres of forestland each decade. In the
1960s, people found that acid rain fall was unhealthy and damaging to forests (Baines, 20).
Acid rain does not kill the trees directly. Acid rain makes the tree weaken and poisons it with
toxic substances that are slowly released from the soil (EPA). When the trees weaken from the
acid, it has a harder time fighting off adversaries such as fungi, diseases, and frost so
subsequently it dies. Around the 1970s the acid rain dilemma got worse, the acid rain has put
trees in danger and now they are starting to die off. The effects of acid rain on a tree is shown if
it has less foliage, yellow spots and produces many cones (Baines, 22). Secondly, acid rain
damages the trees through the soil by releasing metals that harm them even further (Lucas, 72).
Acid rain makes the trees lose their leaves, so when the trees try to regrow their leaves, buds
come instead, this process is called a panic shoot (M. 15). Large land areas which used to be
covered with forests are now gone, dead or dying (Baines, 21). Around the 1980�s more than half
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of the trees in Germany had signs of acid rain damage...
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