acid rain

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Climate change is already more important than acid rain, genetic engineering a more topical issue than saving whales. BNC

This must surely mean that acid rain was natural and the acidification of lochs had nothing to do with power stations. BNC

The Canadians say that sulphur, falling as acid rain, is killing fish in the lakes of southern Ontario and Nova Scotia and damaging forests. BNC

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