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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1990
Page
6
The Mini Page discusses Earth Day with the theme Think Globally Act Locally You Can Make a Difference. It covers tropical rain forests, their wildlife and forests being cleared for wood and farming, and notes concerns that forest loss may alter local weather. It explains greenhouse effect from greenhouse gas buildup trapping heat near Earth.
The ozone layer shields Earth from harmful sun rays but is thinner in some areas. Air pollutants mixed with sunlight form acids that fall as rain snow or hail. Acid rain lowers lake pH and harms fish populations.
John Muir, born in Scotland in 1838, became a leading American conservationist and naturalist. After a factory accident temporarily blinded him, he vowed to seek the outdoors and moved to California where his writings helped preserve Yosemite Valley as a national park.
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