Greenhouse Emissions from Urban Parks May Be Undoing Environmental Good

The environmental good done by urban green spaces may be undone by their maintenance.

It seems counterintuitive to suggest that urban parks, fields and other green spaces that provide natural places of retreat to city dwellers are actually somehow harmful to the environment. A recent study of four urban parks by researchers at the University of California-Irvine, however, lends some credence to the suggestion - and it may change the way some parks and rec agencies think about their field maintenance practices.

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