Sulphur dioxide is found in fossil fuel smoke and exhaust gases. It can travel long distances through prevailing winds and is converted to sulphuric acid in the air. Inhalation of sulphur dioxide can cause breathing difficulties and lung damage in humans. Acid rain from sulphur dioxide pollution acidifies land and waterways. This negatively impacts fish, wildlife, and can cause trees to lose chlorophyll and die.
Sulphur dioxide is found in fossil fuel smoke and exhaust gases. It can travel long distances through prevailing winds and is converted to sulphuric acid in the air. Inhalation of sulphur dioxide can cause breathing difficulties and lung damage in humans. Acid rain from sulphur dioxide pollution acidifies land and waterways. This negatively impacts fish, wildlife, and can cause trees to lose chlorophyll and die.
Sulphur dioxide is found in fossil fuel smoke and exhaust gases. It can travel long distances through prevailing winds and is converted to sulphuric acid in the air. Inhalation of sulphur dioxide can cause breathing difficulties and lung damage in humans. Acid rain from sulphur dioxide pollution acidifies land and waterways. This negatively impacts fish, wildlife, and can cause trees to lose chlorophyll and die.
◦Global: presence in air by prevailing winds carry gaseous pollutant across
continent and seas ◦SO2+ H20 + ½O2H2SO4(sulphuric acid) Effects on human: Inhalation results in labored breathing, coughing, and or a sore throat and may cause permanent pulmonary damage. When mixed with water and contacted by skin, frostbite may occur. When it makes contact with eyes, redness and pain will occur. Fish (leaches metal from soil) –high pH Trees begin to die –lack of chlorophyll