The phrase "affect their environment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how individuals, groups, or entities influence or change their surroundings or conditions.
Example: "The actions of the community can significantly affect their environment, leading to both positive and negative outcomes."
Alternatives: "influence their surroundings" or "impact their ecosystem".
Like Edward Sawicki, they are farmers, and worry how the arrival of an exploratory drilling rig nearby will affect their environment, particularly if water usage surges.
By making the first direct estimate of how efficient or "green" black holes are, this work gives insight into how black holes generate energy and affect their environment.
It is often assumed that hunter-gatherers did not change or affect their environment in a way that can be detected by means of pollen analysis.
To understand the impact of rising levels of atmospheric CO2 on ecosystems, we need to understand plant responses to elevated CO2, as well as how those plant responses in turn affect their environment.
"The spectacular images we have obtained of this source are letting us test theories as to how pulsars unleash so much energy". The features seen with Chandra give the scientists insight into the process by which voltages of more than 7000 trillion volts are created around rotating neutron stars (the dense remnants of supernova explosions) and how these extreme voltages affect their environment.
These models show that understanding both the scale over which organisms affect their environment and the degree to which organisms interact in such effects are important for interpreting patterns in environmental quality, predicting the effects of organism environment feedback on competition, and explaining the persistence of mutualistic traits.
Astronomers call these "tidal disruption events," or TDEs, and they can be used to better understand how black holes grow and affect their environments.
This phenomenon is known as gene-environment correlation in which genetically driven influences of individuals affect their environments.
People made decisions that affected their environment and had ramifications from which great drama could be elaborated.
They are motivated by being part of something important that positively affects their environment.
Prigogine influenced J. D. Bernal in his 1947 lectures on the physical basis of life to start to understand both how organisms produced their internal order while affected their environment by not only their activities but through created disorder in it (Bernal 1951).
