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Urban parks: a global warming downer?
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For the first time, new study by University of California Irvine researchers has compared the amount of greenhouse gases absorbed by ornamental turfgrass to the amount emitted in the irrigation, fertilizing and mowing of the same plots. In four parks near Irvine, researchers calculated that emissions were similar to or greater than the amount of carbon dioxide removed from the air through photosynthesis.
Greenspace, Feb 19.
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