The part of the sentence "alter the environment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to refer to changing the environment in some way. For example: Human activity has been known to drastically alter the environment.
Some fear that the plants will fundamentally alter the environment.
As humans continue to alter the environment and climate change progresses, this poses many problems for migrating species.
Now it is the subject of a detailed report by Grönlund into how to alter the environment in order to reduce the crime.
But if it seems ridiculous to alter the environment so drastically to make it fit for human habitation, that critique seems applicable far beyond the Dutch borders, does it not?
"When we alter the environment abruptly," Dr. Plowright said, "we radically change the balance between diseases and the immune system, which can affect the entire web of life, including humans.
In 1980, researchers say it was dogma among ecologists that nature creates and recreates ecosystems in an orderly fashion with predictable parades of species rolling in: the early pioneering species first, which alter the environment, making possible the arrival of the second wave of species and so on, until the final array of plants and animals is in place.
Dams designed for hydropower and other purposes alter the environments of many economically important fishes, including Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).
A century of drainage and development have further altered the environment and carved up the Ortona earthworks.
Remaking the age-old survival mechanisms of the human body appears, to some, more feasible than altering the environment humans have created.
This has proved to be a baseless concern, but altering the environment would be the entire purpose of introducing a gene drive.
Asked what the government could do differently, he focused on altering the environment to allow nature to better combat extreme weather events.
