Orway's Leading Environmental Problem Of Acid Rain

Acidification or acid rain as it is commonly referred to, is norway’s leading environmental problem. Acid Rain comes from sulfur dioxide emissions originating from the united kingdom and norway's other surrounding countries. The Acid rain is damaging many of norway's forests, and lakes(State of the Environment) The forests are being affected because the acid rain the making the trees vulnerable to disease, extreme weather, and insects by destroying their leaves, damaging the bark and arresting their growth. The tree damage is mainly in eastern europe regardless it is a still a problem that could affect norway one day. (Conserve Energy Future) Additionally there are effect on the soil to acid rain highly impacts on soil chemistry and biology.

If the pH levels fall below 4.8 then then it becomes hostile to the aquatic life, at levels below 5pH Most fish eggs can not hatch, even lower pH levels will kill adult fish. (Conserve Energy Future)Acidification also reduces biodiversity since most aquatic life cannot survive in just low levels of pH(Conserve Energy Future), but the main problem for norway is their economy. Fish is not only their main source of food, but norway's main export as well.(Environmental Issues.) That is a major problem because if norway loses all of their fish there economy will free fall after losing its main export and top food source. The norwegian government is making huge strides to improve the Sulfur and nitrogen dioxide levels. In fact the norwegian government has made a pledge to only travel on 100% electric cars by 2020.(oliver) In Addition they are encouraging the change to electric cars by making a special lane for the electric cars so the people who drive them can get around faster. (Oliver) In my opinion and oliver's the norwegian government is doing enough to combat the acidification by liming the rivers and working with other countries to reduce their emissions and become cleaner together. Now it is really just up the rest of