A volunteer with the Acid Rain Monitoring Project in 2014. The project, based at UMass Amherst, has been collected water quality data since 1983. (ARMP ) AMHERST -- In the 1970s and 1980s, acid rain ...

When acidic components get into rain or other forms of precipitation, acid rain can make trees die. It won't hurt you to walk or swim in acid rain, but the particles that cause it may hurt your lungs ...