Acid rain is caused by sulfur and nitrogen compounds emitted from both natural and man-made sources reacting with water, oxygen, and hydroxyl radicals in the atmosphere to form acids. When the acids fall to Earth as rain, snow, fog, hail or dry deposition, it makes lakes and streams acidic. Acid rain damages trees and other vegetation, buildings and statues, and is harmful to aquatic organisms. It also leaches nutrients from soils. The main causes of acid rain are emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the air from coal burning power plants and other industrial processes, as well as natural sources like volcanoes. Acid rain is deposited through both wet deposition processes like rain and snow, and dry deposition