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Microplastics in the Baltic Sea region lakes-standardized insights reveal urban shoreline as key driver. [PDF]

open access: yesEnviron Sci Pollut Res Int
Babkiewicz E   +14 more
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City mice and country mice: innovative problem solving in rural and urban noncommensal rodents

Animal Behaviour, 2021
The ability to produce innovative behaviour is a key determinant in the successful coping with environmental challenges and changes. The expansion of human-altered environments presents wildlife with multiple novel situations in which innovativeness could be beneficial.
Valeria Mazza, Anja Guenther
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Urban air pollution and The Country and the City

Global Environment, 2016
Abstract Building from Raymond Williams' The Country and the City , this article examines the uses of urban smoke pollution as a symbol of the city, in particular of London. It argues that authors in early modern Britain used smoke as a metaphor for urban life, whether they found that life to be ...
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Interweaving country and city in the urban design of Savannah, Georgia

Global Environment, 2016
Abstract The city of Savannah, Georgia, has been praised for its harmonious blend of rural and urban qualities. What is often forgotten, however, is that the urban plan that was finally realised in the nineteenth century differs fundamentally from the original plan created by James Oglethorpe. The changes made to the plan over about a century,
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