It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
In addition, malaria parasites can uptake nutrients from the environment through ion channels [43 ] and tubovesicular membrane networks extending from the parasite vacuole membrane [41 ,42 ,44 ].
A certain amount of collateral damage and destruction to the surrounding environment has always been viewed as a necessary but generally undesirable by-product of military conflict.
Under conditions of incomplete burning, and/or in dry or waterlogged environments in which microorganic activity is weak, wood can keep its anatomical structure [11 ,12 ].
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Thus the festival-goer is tangibly and emotionally 'freed' from routine and enters willingly and with anticipation into a temporally and spatially special environment.
[...] reviewing the parental leave and maternity schemes and, finally, raising awareness of employers about the importance of creating a family-friendly working environment.
Meaning of environment for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "environment" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.