Article synopsis:
Japanese environmental scientists are creating parks in Tokyo that are specially designed to cycle polluted air through a layer of soil. Microbes in the soil take out the pollutants.

Article citation:
"Urban Oasis," Popular Science, January 1995, p. 74-86.

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