How Kids Can Help Prevent Acid Rain

Acid rain is no good. Acid rain technically refers to both wet and dry material from the atmosphere that contains large amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids. To break it down, acid rain means polluted rain, snow, fog, hail, sleet, or even dust or smoke. If it falls to the ground and it’s polluted, then we call that acid rain. Even though, as you can see now, that term is somewhat misleading.
The pollution in acid rain is mainly caused by the burning of fossil fuels, like gasoline and oil. Coal burning and some natural sources, like volcanoes and decaying vegetation …read more