Sentence examples for causing soil from inspiring English sources

The tank had floated around the property during the flood, spilling its contents and causing soil contamination that cost tens of thousands of dollars to repair.

There are very few standing trees left on the island to stabilize the ground, conservationists say, "causing soil and rocks to crumble into the sea, threatening nearshore coral reef in the waters below".

"The drive for ever-increasing productivity is good for industry but not the environment, with evidence that it's causing soil quality to decline and impacting on birds and other wildlife, not just bees," he says.

But conservationists argue that the planned highway would cut into mountains, increasing the threat of landslides, disturb animals with the upheaval of industrial construction, and involve chopping down trees which line the Struma river, causing soil erosion and flooding.

Precipitation may run off the land surface, causing soil erosion, or it may percolate into soil profiles and become part of subsurface runoff, which eventually makes its way into the stream system.

Metals contaminate the soil when present in high concentrations causing soil and ultimately environmental pollution.

These results suggest that sor1, a rice mutant causing soil-surface rooting and altered root gravitropic response, is allelic to Os04g0101800, and that a 33-bp deletion in the coding region of this gene causes the mutant phenotypes.

The sor1 (soil-surface rooting 1), a rice mutant causing soil-surface rooting and altered root gravitropic response, is allelic to Os04g0101800 on the terminal region of the short arm of chromosome 4.

Heavy rainfall can cause soil erosion, in which case the iodine-rich upper layers of soil are washed away.

Under Turkish rule, the region suffered from overcultivation and deforestation that caused soil erosion and depopulation.

Radical temperature swings cause soil to heave, tearing roots and in some cases pushing plants right out of the ground.