While a golden brown lawn is seen as a badge of honor to some residents of drought-stricken California, in fact, they are doing more harm to the environment than good, says UC Agriculture and Natural Resources turf expert Jim Baird. [...]
maintaining lawns rather than letting them die or replacing the grass with synthetic turf, concrete or so-called drought-tolerant plants offers important ecological services. [...]
“The more we let our grass lawns die or go away, the hotter it's going to get”
— ucanr.edu
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4 Comments
so ... more global warming?!?
oh, the horror!!
Are you denying that global warming is real?
Lookee that old building in back.
Gotta hand it to traditional architecture for being able to solve drought problems.
keep us in closer contact to our ecosystem Palladio!
YES! At least that the 'man-made' part of global warming, I mean, climate change, is blown out of proportion.
also, the holocaust never happened
9/11 was an inside job but if you think oswald did it youre wrong it was the CIA
what moon landing? the earth 'tis flat!
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