Sentence examples for acidify from inspiring English sources

If it is not properly managed, they fear it could get washed on to the surrounding land, where it could harm crops, and into the rivers, where it can acidify the water and feed algal blooms, which suck the oxygen out of the water and kill fish and insects when they rot.

It tears up the land and can acidify groundwater.

So we laid down those four sheets of newspaper in between the bushes, wet them down, sprinkled some sulfate all around to acidify the soil, then added compost to feed our stressed plants.

The Permian ocean was easier to acidify than today's ocean because it had less deep-water calcium carbonate, which offsets the acid.

It is a world where environmental news goes from bad to worse, a place where ice caps vanish, crops fail, oceans acidify, activists rally and an oil company makes more money in three years "than any company in the history of money".

Meanwhile, as the planet warms, ice caps melt, oceans acidify and dry regions desertify.

While some producers decided to de-acidify their 2010s to flesh them out and make them more approachable, others decided to work with what nature provided.

Conservators are also working on treatments to de-acidify paper.

While the green zones appear to have boosted fish numbers, marine life on the reef also has to cope with warming, acidifying waters due to climate change, as well as pressures from pollution and coastal development.

OUR correspondents discuss the environmental consequences of acidifying oceans, Boeing's 777X airliner and using viruses to make better batteries.

Greens fell over each other to declare the forests of North America acidified and dying.