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Acid Rain Still Taking a Toll on Northeast Forests
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/16b62944-d60a-4f75-b003-684a124c9800/10204589-F969-47F9-9F28-32A27AA0E0C9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/30/acid-rain-northeast.html" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/30/acid-rain-northeast.html" style="font-size: 11px;">dsc.discovery.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/30/acid-rain-northeast.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dsc.discovery.com/img/D58C704F-8688-47BD-A028-3555A43A6790" alt="Damaged by Acidic Soils" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/30/acid-rain-northeast.html"><P><STRONG>May 30, 2008</STRONG> -- Acid rain may seem, like, <EM>so</EM> 1980s, but the problem has not gone away.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/30/acid-rain-northeast.html"><P>Researchers reported this week that <A target="_blank" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/10/25/leaves-fall-colors.html">soils throughout the Northeast</A> are continuing to acidify, despite a 50 percent decrease in acid rain since the peak in 1973.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/30/acid-rain-northeast.html"><P>This may be contributing to declines in sugar maples and red spruce in the region, the researchers said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/30/acid-rain-northeast.html"><P>"The quality of water is improving, but the soils are continuing to get worse," said study lead author Richard Warby, now at Environ International Corporation in Princeton, N.J.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/30/acid-rain-northeast.html"><P>Warby, who conducted the study while at Syracuse University in N.Y., presented the findings this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/30/acid-rain-northeast.html"><P>Acid rain in the United States is caused primarily by emissions from coal power plants, especially sulfur dioxide. 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