Acid Rains
Miles of
and thousands of
across northern
and
are dying.
as strong as vinegar, acid rain, is
falling across vast areas of wilderness. The cause is often a hundred of miles away, in our
and
. When we burn
and
, waste gases are produced. These emissions combined with
in the
create sulfuric and nitric
which fall to the
as acid rain. In the 1980s, world leaders agreed to target for reducing
of these polluting gases. As a direct result, scrubbers are now being fitted to many power stations
their
. And all new cars in Europe and the US must be fitted with catalytic converters.