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Tracing inter-city nitrogen pollution

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Linking spatially explicit inter-city nitrogen pollution transfer embedded in food trade to urbanization pathways and historic agricultural production trends reveals evidence of a ’pollution haven’ phenomenon in China’s Greater Bay Area, exacerbated by impeded agricultural development in less-urbanized surrounding cities.

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K.V.R. acknowledges financial support from the European Union’s Horizon Europe (HORIZON) Research & Innovation programme under the Grant Agreement no. 101091308. E.D.K. acknowledges financial support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 101000527.

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Mathijs, E., De Keyser, E. & Van Ruymbeke, K. Tracing inter-city nitrogen pollution. Nat Food 5, 355–356 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-00981-4

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