Acid Rain

Dirty drops from the sky

Cause

Fossil fuel burning is the biggest cause of SO₂ and NOₓ which together are responsible for roughly 50% of all cases of acid rain (Chiu et al., 2011). They react with water vapor and different chemicals in the air, eventually making sulfuric and nitric acids that come down to earth as acid rain. Volcanoes may alter CO2, but what people do is far more of a cause (as explained by Grennfelt et al., 2020). It is mentioned by Chiu et al. (2011) that chimney waste includes pollutants that make the air acidic and the same group says algae technology can stop such emissions from reaching the air.