Based on research, by the year of 2005 more than 95,000 lakes and streams in the Northern American regions will be damaged by acid rain. Acid Rain is rainfall or any other from of precipitation that has a pH less than 5.6. Acid rains are very destructive. It's form when oxides of nitrogen and sulfite combine with water and moisture in the air to form Nitric ad Sulfuric acid. These acid precipitations can carry far from their origins. …showed first 75 words of 1121 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1121 total…to the earth they do not cause damage to just the environment but also to human health. Acid rain kills plant life and destroys life in lakes and ponds. The pollutants in acid rain can affects human health in a lot of different ways. Governments have passed laws to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, but it doesn't really work unless people start to work together in stopping the release of these pollutants.