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Among the ideas researchers are looking at is fertilizing the surface of the ocean to cause a proliferation of tiny carbon-absorbing phytoplankton.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2023

While the club is fertilizing, seeding and rolling the field to minimize the damage, he wrote that laying down a new surface could be an option if the problems continued.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2011

I rejoice to find that the fumier I have been forced to fling on my worn-out ancestral estate is fertilizing its barrenness.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various

There is fertilizing sunshine: but there is also the destroying thunderbolt. 

From Westminster Sermons with a Preface by Kingsley, Charles