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The Natural Environment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In this chapter readers will learn about the following:\ud • The emergence of environmental politics and political ecology.\ud • How and why environmental politics has globalized.\ud • Why achieving global consensus for political action on environmental issues has proved difficult.
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Elimination of Plastic Polymers in Natural Environments

open access: yes, 2017
Plastic production and consumption continues to rise and subsequently plastic waste continues to accumulates in natural environments, causing harm to ecosystems.The aim of this paper was to come up with a way to utilize organisms, that have been ...
Ramirez-Ekner, Sofia   +3 more
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Stoichiometric microplastics models in natural and laboratory environments

open access: yes
**Abstract** *(description taken from article)* Microplastics pose a severe threat to marine ecosystems; however, relevant mathematical modeling and analysis are lacking.
Wang, Tianxu, Wang, Hao
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Is spatial intelligibility critical to the design of largescale virtual environments?

open access: yes, 2002
This paper discusses the concept of 'intelligibility', a concept usually attributed to the design of real-world environments and suggests how it might be applied to the construction of virtual environments.
Conroy-Dalton, R   +2 more
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Green outdoor environments: Settings for promoting children’s health and wellbeing

open access: yes, 2017
Educators have a key pedagogical role in promoting ealry years outdoor play in natural environments. Active outdoor playa involving risk-taking has been linked to positive effects on social health and behaviour, and encourages physicalactivity and motor ...
Dyment, Janet, Green, Monica, Bell, Anne
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Interspecies relationships of natural amoebae and bacteria with C. elegans create environments propitious for multigenerational diapause

open access: yesmSystems
The molecular and physical communication within the microscopic world underpins the entire web of life as we know it. However, how organisms, such as bacteria, amoebae, and nematodes—all ubiquitous—interact to sustain their ecological niches ...
Marcela Serey   +6 more
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Natural environments and suicide

open access: yesThe Lancet Planetary Health, 2018
Shu-Sen Chang, David Gunnell
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Bacteriophages in Natural and Artificial Environments

open access: yes, 2019
Bacteriophages (phages) are biological entities that have attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. They have been reported as the most abundant biological entities on the planet and their ability to impact the composition of bacterial ...
Hiu Tat Chan   +14 more
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Ecological and health risk assessment of linear alkylbenzene sulfonates in Doroodzan Dam (Fars)

open access: yesسلامت و محیط, 2019
Background and Objective: Nowadays linear alkyl benzene sulfanate (LAS) is widely used in the production of various detergents. The purpose of this study was to assess the health and ecological hazards of this pollutant on target organisms such as fish ...
E Hoshyari   +2 more
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