How to pronounce “acidify” in English

We all know that we've changed the external environment.We've got an acidifying ocean.The pH is dropping.

But I think Europe is setting that standard now.And we're acidifying the oceans at a massive rate.

Building. Does anybody in this room know Bill de Blasio-- the mayor of New York?We're acidifying the ocean to the point where we're increasing it about 30% since the industrial era.

So you know that you're getting the same thing with every bottle of bottled lemon juice.There are also a few other fruits that you acidify like that-- figs, white peaches, and white nectarines, Asian pears, and then melons, and mangoes.So sort of more of the tropical fruits and things where they just don't taste as acidic to you.

It's conceivable, scientists are now saying, that the CO2 problem in the atmosphere is getting so bad, and so much of the CO2 is being absorbed into the oceansand warming it, and acidifying it, that it is possible that within our lifetimes, perhaps by as early as 2030, that coral reefs maystop growing altogether. So the project is an artistic response to the most critical environmental crisis

So eventually everything we burn is going to end up as limestone at the bottom of the ocean.But if you do that too quickly, then oceans start to acidify.They can't buffer against these big changes.

that the polar bear lives, what's going on in those regions and does it really matter then if the U.S. has all this great protection and 90 percent of the terrain not protected?ocean acidification because the oceans absorb a lot of that carbon dioxide from the air and that causes the water to acidify and as the water becomes more acid that destroys

We're in the Bay of Naples in this area where there's a lot of volcanic activity, not too far, actually, from Mount Vesuvius.And it happens that there's CO2 bubbling out of the bottom of the sea there and naturally acidifyingthe water. So I went out with a British marine scientist named Jason Hall-Spencer who had gotten this idea that if we

They convert that into what?Saturated fat, cholesterol, acidifying animal protein, and huge amounts of sewage, which end up, again, polluting both surface water and groundwater.One large pig operation, for example, creates more sewage than the entire New York City. And yet, it's basically unregulated.