Acid rain ruined our cherry tree 🌧
A few days ago me and my daughter were looking forward to the cherry picking.
Look what an acid rain can do for cherries that were perfect for a few days before.
"Acid rain does not usually kill trees directly. Instead, it is more likely to weaken the trees by damaging their leaves, limiting the nutrients available to them, or poisoning them with toxic substances slowly released from the soil. Scientists believe that acidic water dissolves the nutrients and helpful minerals in the soil and then washes them away before the trees and other plants can use them to grow. At the same time, the acid rain causes the release of toxic substances such as aluminum into the soil. These are very harmful to trees and plants, even if contact is limited." Source: http://www2.gsu.edu/~mstnrhx/EnviroBio%20Projects/AcidRain/effects.html
Toxic substances also wash away in the runoff that carries the substances into streams, rivers, and lakes. Less of these toxic substances are released when the rainfall is cleaner. Even if the soil is well buffered, there can be damage from acid rain.
When leaves are frequently bathed in this acid fog, their protective waxy coating can wear away. The loss of the coating damages the leaves and creates brown spots. Leaves turn the energy in sunlight into food for growth. This process is called photosynthesis. When leaves are damaged, they cannot produce enough food energy for the tree to remain healthy. Once trees are weak, they can be more easily attacked by diseases or insects that ultimately kill them. Weakened trees may also become injured more easily by cold weather.Acid rain can harm other plants in the same way it harms trees.
Aww, all those delicious cherries gone! Anything that is being produce with meg consequences on the earth will cause more problems. We need to find alternatives.
That sucks man, I have been around this country, and I know in the New England area the upper NE was some serious acid rain. I have not ever seen it before until I visited that area. You could tell for a while after some of that acid rain went through, and also the cars are all rusted out from the road salts, so there is the double wammy.
Huge problems. I am sorry for that.
that is so bad. . is there any factory that emit pollution around your area?
There is a fertilizer factory at 30 km.
that is a far factory, yet could bring some destructive power to the community
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That's terrible! I just noticed on your pic of the leaf, there is a white residue collected at the tip, is this the pollutant? Acid? I have never seen acid rain before or it's effects. You must be gutted. Poor little cherry tree.
Look at the 3rd picture to see how the fruits look like? The next picture with the leaf is only suggestive.