Longreads"As often happens when you say I’ll worry about it later, later happened, and spring brought a bumper crop of dandelions absolutely thrilled to have found a yard owned by an anti-pesticide crusader with no affinity for lawn care." —Maggie Slepian on why you should kill your lawn (on purpose).
Follow GOLFhttps://www.fogolf.com/1246055/student-view-from-the-country-club-to-the-fifa-world-cup-2026-msutoday/ Student view: From the country club to the FIFA World Cup 2026 | MSUToday #FIFAWorldCup2026 #GolfCourses #turfgrass
Paul HouleRadiocarbon analysis of turfgrasses can help cities measure greenhouse gas emissions
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-radiocarbon-analysis-turfgrasses-cities-greenhouse.html
#turfgrass #carbon #co2 #isotopes #stableisotopes #cities #climatechange #plants #environment #sensors
Radiocarbon analysis of turfgrasses can help cities measure greenhouse gas emissions
Cities around the world are working to limit emissions of climate-warming greenhouse gases, but there have been few ways of measuring whether those gases are actually decreasing in any given municipality. In new research, University of California, Irvine scientists have created an effective method to measure greenhouse gas emissions around cities—something that can help local governments gauge the effectiveness of their emission-curbing programs.
BellingenNSWThe wide open spaces
of tabula rasa (blank / clean slate)
Connell "Park", Bellingen
Scraping (rasa/ radere) off the bio-diverse 'writing'.
#Bellingen #ConnellPark #herbicides #FossilFuel #machinery #emission #climate #GHG #turfgrass #NitrousOxide #TabulaRasa #biodiversity
CellBioNewsUnraveling the #metabolic mysteries of #turfgrass under #heat_stress.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-unraveling-metabolic-mysteries-turfgrass-stress.html
Unraveling the metabolic mysteries of turfgrass under heat stress
A research team has identified key metabolic composition differences between annual bluegrass and creeping bentgrass under heat stress, revealing specific metabolites linked to heat tolerance. The findings underscore the potential to use these metabolites as biomarkers for breeding more resilient turfgrass varieties.
Beneficial #bacteria UD1022 promising for disarming #fungal #pathogens that affect #turfgrass.
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-beneficial-bacteria-ud1022-fungal-pathogens.html
John EnglartJust finished skim reading this study on urban lawns and grasslands soil carbon sequestration. It is an important meta-analysis contributing to addressing urban climate emissions.
"High soil carbon sequestration rates persist several decades in turfgrass systems: A meta-analysis." (OpenAccess)
I did a fair amount of reading on Soil Organic Carbon from turf grasses when I researched my literature review on Synthetic Turf in 2021, and this article pulls a lot of information from numerous studies together..
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722070747?via%3Dihub
#SoilCarbon #CarbonSink #CarbonSequestration #Lawns #Turfgrass #Emissions #ClimateSolutions #ClimateCrisis
