Sentence examples for soil poisoning from inspiring English sources

Like others in the so-called good-food movement, Allen, who is 60, asserts that our industrial food system is depleting soil, poisoning water, gobbling fossil fuels and stuffing us with bad calories.

Water safety, food contamination, soil poisoning and air pollution are all concerns.

A cellar is probably the best option as it is below ground and is likely largely made out of concrete, so it has a certain amount of protection against soil poisoning and gasses.

In the long run, though, winning requires partnering with Arab and Muslim societies to help them build thriving countries, integrated with the world economy, where young people don't grow up in a soil poisoned by religious extremists and choked by petro-dictators so they can never realize their aspirations.

Starting in the 1870s, however, Standard Oil and other refineries began spilling or dumping excess fuels and toxic chemicals into the water or onto the soil, slowly poisoning the ecosystem.

These metals can leach out of the soil into ground water, poisoning the water supply.

TNT particles seep into the dirt below, poisoning the soil for plant life.

Thick swathes of grey smog regularly engulf many cities, while rivers and soil are poisoned by heavy metals from industry and mining.

People walk past, runners cross the bridge, trains from all directions loaded with commuters pass by… There are trees down the bridge but also areas of plain grass, because the soil was poisoned to avoid trees growing in order to see refugees more easily.

If you poison the soil, you poison the planet, and you poison yourself.

Soils were poisoned from the salt in irrigated water that is left behind after evaporation.