1. Acid Rain
... dioxide is produced by electric utilities, industrial, commercial and residential heating, smelters, diesel engines and marine and rail transport, which creates sulfuric acid in rain. Nitrogen dioxide will also react with the rain, caused largely by transportation (cars, trucks, planes, etc.) and electric utilities, producing nitric acid. There is a certain degree of naturally occurring acidity in rain water. This ... leeches and mayfly larvae vanish. 5.4 Crayfish reproductivity is impaired. 5 Snail and clams are extinct. All but one species of crayfish are extinct, brook trout, walleyes ...
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