Study reveals air pollution is causing widespread and serious impacts to ecosystems
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 09:35
in Earth & Climate
The Chesapeake Bay, like other East Coast estuaries, suffers from pollution by excess nitrogen. If you are living in the eastern United States, the environment around you is being harmed by air pollution. From Adirondack forests and Shenandoah streams to Appalachian wetlands and the Chesapeake Bay, a new report by the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and The Nature Conservancy has found that air pollution is degrading every major ecosystem type in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic United States.