Acid Rain hits the tropics

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Acid rain, the forgotten scourge of Europe's forests and lakes, is emerging as a prime threat to diversity across the tropics

Acid rain, the forgotten scourge of Europe's forests and lakes, is emerging as a prime threat to biodiversity across the tropics. As countries like India, Brazil and China industrialise, emissions from cars, power stations and factory farms are dousing the rainforests and other biodiversity hotspots in acidic, nitrogen-rich rains that threaten to exterminate thousands of species over the next 50 years