A new study of 68 city centers in Great Britain—comparing "greenness" of tree cover, vegetation and the presence of parks—has linked lower scores with higher levels of poor health, economic, education, crime and other ...
Environment
Nov 23, 2022
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Published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, a five-year study analyzed the atmosphere over the Amazon Rainforest to track the height and distance that hay fever-causing particles like pollen and fungi can travel.
Environment
Sep 21, 2022
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The road through Cristalina, Brazil is in the middle of the tropics, but the fields on either side look like they are covered in snow—little white puffs of cotton stretching to the horizon.
Ecology
Aug 11, 2022
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Turfgrass covers more than 40 million acres of land in the continental United States, including lawns, parks, commercial landscapes, sports fields and golf courses. It is the single largest irrigated crop in the nation.
Plants & Animals
Jul 1, 2019
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Annual bluegrass is one of the most common weeds of turfgrass on golf courses, sports fields and sod farms, not to mention residential and commercial lawns. Unfortunately this nemesis of pristine landscapes has also developed ...
Ecology
Oct 18, 2018
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Performance testing of natural turfgrass sports fields requires sampling to obtain information on surface properties (e.g., soil moisture, soil compaction, surface hardness, and turfgrass vigor). A study in the September ...
Other
Nov 28, 2016
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Following the revelation that English Premiership football club Everton FC is using drones to monitor player training sessions, it seems there's nothing these Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) aren't being primed to do: everything ...
Engineering
Sep 29, 2015
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(Phys.org) —From ping pong tables to golf courses, the sizes of sports fields vary widely. Although the sizes of sports fields were originally defined empirically—that is, by simply playing the sport rather than performing ...
New York's attorney general is trying to dismantle what he calls a system of creating false online review for products and services.
Internet
Sep 23, 2013
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New Zealand declared a drought across its entire North Island for the first time in at least 30 years on Friday, with low river levels in the capital Wellington also worrying officials.
Environment
Mar 15, 2013
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