Effects of air pollution on forests?

Question

Effects of air pollution on forests?

Answer 1

acid rain.

Answer 2

None as the rain forest wast the air daily. So as far as the forest are concerned there is no pollution.

Answer 3

Actually pollution in the US has been steadily decreasing since the 70's.

I know that it's a problem in India since the pollution there is disintegrating the marble on the Taj Mahal, but it's old and non relevant news in the US, despite the media hype.

From what I've read, the forests take care of themselves.  Some theories show that the forests actually clean the air, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.  We should still clean up the forest underbrush to prevent forest fires, but other than that we should just let nature take care of itself.

Let's keep reducing pollution, but try not to get caught up in whole "global warming" political nonsense in the process.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Forests affect pollution more than pollution affects forests at this point.  They are nature's air cleanup team, and are doing a great job.

Back when we had significant air pollution in my town, the local botanical garden had to purchase some acreage out in the country to transplant some of their more sensitive plants due to the pollution.  Many of their exotics were dying.  But that was WAAAAAYYY back when the air was so dirty; I think it was the 1930s. Our air pollution was at its worst in the 20s.

Now since the air is so much cleaner, even than it was when I was a young adult, they have turned their country acreage into a nature preserve, and the botanical gardens in the city are doing just fine.

Thank God things are a LOT better than they used to be.

Answer 6

Acid rain damages trees

Answer 7

Some effects of air pollution on forests are deforestation and soil erosion. Deforestation is when there are no more trees in an area due to the pollution. Soil erosion is when the soil has too many things that are harmful in them so that when the plants grow out they are not their normal shape or size....

Answer 8

It's called "acid rain" and it kills them!  It also drops pollutants, especially heavy metals like MERCURY hundred of miles "downwind" of where it was generated.  That mercury is eventually finding it's way into the streams, birds, fish, etc....

And then there are the farm animals that graze on the fields where the pollution falls.  What a mess, we must work on cleaning this up.