From AFP, via tehrantimes.com:
China’s sharp rise in sulphur dioxide emissions, the main component of acid rain, is ruining the nation’s croplands and threatening the food chain in rivers and lakes, experts have said.
The emissions, largely caused by burning coal to sate China’s booming appetite for electricity and by vehicle exhaust, are further exacerbating severe ecological degradation in the world’s most populous nation, they said.
China announced this week that it emitted nearly 26 million tons of sulphur dioxide last year, a 27 percent increase since 2000, making the nation the world’s biggest polluter of acid rain-causing substances. [Full Text]
