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Download Launchpack Britannica LaunchPacks | Human Populations and Their Environment Human Populations and Their Environment For Grades 9-12 This Pack contains: 6 ARTICLES 6 IMAGES 1 VIDEO © 2020 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 1 of 106 Britannica LaunchPacks | Human Populations and Their Environment acid rain also called acid precipitation or acid deposition, precipitation possessing a pH of about 5.2 or below primarily produced from the emission of sulfur dioxide (SO ) and nitrogen oxides (NO ; the combination of NO and NO ) 2 x 2 from human activities, mostly the combustion of fossil fuels. In acid-sensitive landscapes, acid deposition can reduce the pH of surface waters and lower biodiversity. It weakens trees and increases their susceptibility to damage from other stressors, such as drought, extreme cold, and pests. In acid-sensitive areas, acid rain also depletes soil of important plant nutrients and buffers, such as calcium and magnesium, and can release aluminum, bound to soil particles and rock, in its toxic dissolved form. Acid rain contributes to the corrosion of surfaces exposed to air pollution and is responsible for the deterioration of limestone and marble buildings and monuments. The phrase acid rain was first used in 1852 by Scottish chemist Robert Angus Smith during his investigation of rainwater chemistry near industrial cities in England and Scotland. The phenomenon became an important part of his book Air and Rain: The Beginnings of a Chemical Climatology (1872). It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s, however, that acid rain was recognized as a regional environmental issue affecting large areas of western Europe and eastern North America. Acid rain also occurs in Asia and parts of Africa, South America, and Australia. As a global environmental issue, it is frequently overshadowed by climate change. Although the problem of acid rain has been significantly reduced in some areas, it remains an important environmental issue within and downwind from major industrial and industrial agricultural regions worldwide. Chemistry of acid deposition Acid rain is a popular expression for the more scientific term acid deposition, which refers to the many ways in which acidity can move from the atmosphere to Earth’s surface. Acid deposition includes acidic rain as well as other forms of acidic wet deposition—such as snow, sleet, hail, and fog (or cloud water). Acid deposition also includes the dry deposition of acidic particles and gases, which can affect landscapes during dry periods. Thus, acid deposition is capable of affecting landscapes and the living things that reside within them even when precipitation is not occurring. © 2020 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2 of 106 Britannica LaunchPacks | Human Populations and Their Environment The nitrogen cycle. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Acidity is a measure of the concentration of hydrogen ions (H+) in a solution. The pH scale measures whether a solution is acidic or basic. Substances are considered acidic below a pH of 7, and each unit of pH below 7 is 10 times more acidic, or has 10 times more H+, than the unit above it. For example, rainwater with a pH of 5.0 has a concentration of 10 microequivalents of H+ per litre, whereas rainwater with a pH of 4.0 has a concentration of 100 microequivalents of H+ per litre. Major sulfur-producing sources include sedimentary rocks, which release hydrogen sulfide gas, and… Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Normal rainwater is weakly acidic because of the absorption of carbon dioxide (CO ) from the atmosphere—a 2 process that produces carbonic acid—and from organic acids generated from biological activity. In addition, volcanic activity can produce sulfuric acid (H SO ), nitric acid (HNO ), and hydrochloric acid (HCl) depending on 2 4 3 the emissions associated with specific volcanoes. Other natural sources of acidification include the production of © 2020 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 3 of 106 Britannica LaunchPacks | Human Populations and Their Environment nitrogen oxides from the conversion of atmospheric molecular nitrogen (N ) by lightning and the conversion of 2 organic nitrogen by wildfires. However, the geographic extent of any given natural source of acidification is small, and in most cases it lowers the pH of precipitation to no more than about 5.2. SO2 and NOx emissions in the U.S., 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Anthropogenic activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas) and the smelting of metalores, are the major causes of acid deposition. In the United States, electric utilities produce nearly 70 percent of SO and about 20 percent of NO emissions. Fossil fuels burned by vehicles account for nearly 60 2 x percent of NO emissions in the United States. In the atmosphere, sulfuric and nitric acids are generated when x SO and NO , respectively, react with water. The simplest reactions are: 2 x SO + H O → H SO ←→ H+ + HSO ←→ 2H+ + SO 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 NO + H O → HNO ←→ H+ + NO 2 2 3 3 These reactions in the aqueous phase (for example, in cloud water) create wet deposition products. In the gaseous phase they can produce acidic dry deposition. Acid formation can also occur on particles in the atmosphere. Where fossil fuel consumption is large and emission controls are not in place to reduce SO and NO emissions, 2 x acid deposition will occur in areas downwind of emission sources, often hundreds to thousands of kilometres away. In such areas the pH of precipitation can average 4.0 to 4.5 annually, and the pH of individual rain events can sometimes drop below 3.0. In addition, cloud water and fog in polluted areas may be many times more acidic than rain falling over the same region. Many air pollution and atmospheric deposition problems are intertwined with one another, and these problems are often derived from the same cause, namely the burning of fossil fuels. In addition to acid deposition, NO x emissions along with hydrocarbon emissions are key ingredients in ground-level ozone (photochemical smog) formation, which is one of the most widespread forms of air pollution. The SO and NO emissions can generate 2 x fine particulates, which are harmful to human respiratory systems. Coal combustion is the leading source of atmospheric mercury, which also enters ecosystems by wet and dry deposition. (A number of other heavy metals, such as lead and cadmium, and various particulates are also products of unregulated fossil fuel combustion.) Acid deposition of nitrogen derived from NO emissions creates additional environmental problems. x For example, many lake, estuarine, and coastal marine systems receive too much nitrogen from atmospheric deposition and terrestrial runoff. This eutrophication (or over-enrichment) causes the overgrowth of plants and algae. When these organisms die and decompose, they deplete the dissolved oxygen supply necessary for most aquatic life in water bodies. Eutrophication is considered to be a major environmental problem in lake, coastal marine, and estuarine ecosystems worldwide. © 2020 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 4 of 106 Britannica LaunchPacks | Human Populations and Their Environment Ecological effects of acid deposition Effects on lakes and rivers The regional effects of acid deposition were first noted in parts of western Europe and eastern North America in the late 1960s and early 1970s when changes in the chemistry of rivers and lakes, often in remote locations, were linked to declines in the health of aquatic organisms such as resident fish, crayfish, and clampopulations. Increasing amounts of acid deposition in sensitive areas caused tens of thousands of lakes and streams in Europe and North America to become much more acidic than they had been in previous decades. Acid-sensitive areas are those that are predisposed to acidification because the region’s soils have a low buffering capacity, or low acid-neutralizing capacity (ANC). In addition, acidification can release aluminum bound to soils, which in its dissolved form can be toxic to both plant and animal life. High concentrations of dissolved aluminum released from soils often enter streams and lakes. In conjunction with rising acidity in aquatic environments, aluminum can damage fish gills and thus impair respiration. In the Adirondack Mountain region of New York state, research has shown that the number of fish species drops from five in lakes with a pH of 6.0 to 7.0 to only one in lakes with a pH of 4.0 to 4.5. Other organisms are also negatively affected, so that acidified bodies of water lose plant and animal diversity overall. These effects can ripple throughout the food chain. High acidity, especially from sulfur deposition, can accelerate the conversion of elemental mercury to its deadliest form: methyl mercury, a neurological toxin. This conversion most commonly occurs in wetlands and water-saturated soils where low-oxygen environments provide ideal conditions for the formation of methyl mercury by bacteria. Methyl mercury concentrates in organisms as it moves up the food chain, a phenomenon known as bioaccumulation. Small concentrations of methyl mercury present in phytoplankton and zooplankton accumulate in the fatcells of the animals that consume them. Since animals at higher tiers of the food chain must always consume large numbers of organisms from lower ones, the concentrations of methyl mercury in top predators, which often include humans, increase to levels where they could become harmful. The bioaccumulation of methyl mercury in the tissues of fishes is the leading reason for government health advisories that recommend reduced consumption of fish from fresh and marine waters. In addition, aquatic acidification may be episodic, especially in colder climates. Sulfuric and nitric acid accumulating in a snowpack can leach out rapidly during the initial snowmelt and result in a pulse of acidic meltwater. Such pulses may be much more acidic than any individual snowfall event over the course of a winter, and these events can be deadly to acid-sensitive aquatic organisms throughout the food web.
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