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Climate clippings 130

1. Manicured lawns produce more greenhouse gases than they soak up

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Researchers found:

that a hectare of lawn in Nashville, Tennessee, produced greenhouse gases equivalent to 697 to 2,443kg of carbon dioxide a year. The higher figure is equivalent to a flight more than halfway around the world.

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