A foxtail seed pod.
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Foxtails can hook onto your pet’s skin and may cause redness, swelling and infection.
Christian McCaffrey and the San Francisco 49ers will try to stop the Kansas City Chiefs from winning their third Super Bowl in five years.
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Oh, yeah, and there’s a game, too.
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers suffered a torn Achilles tendon after being sacked by Buffalo Bills defensive end Leonard Floyd.
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Two days after Rodgers’ injury, the NFL players union called on the league to convert all playing fields to natural grass.
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Different grasses respond to and cope with winter in different ways.
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Studies in Yellowstone National Park show plant matter (mostly grass) is found in up to 74% of wolf scats, suggesting the behaviour may be inherited from the beginning of doggy time.
Americans – especially those living in areas affected by drought – are turning to paint to give their grass that perfect green sheen.
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The ideal of perfect turf – a weed-free, supergreen monoculture – is a relatively recent phenomenon.
A woman feeding Zebu cows in a village in Kenya.
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Improving the diets of livestock in Africa provides a rapid pathway to increasing nutrition for people.
The internet has become a new player in plant care advice.
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Plant care advice abounds on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube – but not all of it is good. A plant expert debunks four common recommendations.
Concrete and asphalt roads, and other built materials readily absorb, store and release heat, raising city temperatures, a phenomenon called the urban heat island.
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During heatwaves, the highest temperatures are often found in urbanized areas. Small green spaces are often overlooked as a way to cool urban areas.
Cows’ milk yields rise when they eat Brachiaria grass.
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This grass may hold the key to improving milk yields from cows kept by small-scale farmers across the African continent.
Grassland in Uganda.
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If species already modify their genes, why shouldn’t we?
Welsh mountain sheep face an uncertain future.
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Recent summers have offered a taste of things to come for Welsh farmers.
Burning invasive, nonnative grasses on federal land at Lower Table Rock, Oregon.
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Along with climate change and drought, invasive grasses are promoting wildfires across the US, even in areas that don’t normally burn.
Buttongrass survives and rapidly regrows after a fire. Tasmania, Australia.
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Not only can plants survive fire, they can use the experience of being burned to prepare themselves for future blazes.
Imagine Hyde Park in Sydney without its tree cover … the impact on this space and the many people who spend time in it would be profound.
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Cities around Australia have plans to increase their green space, but new research shows not all green spaces are equal. Good tree cover is better than grassed areas for residents’ mental health.
Grass surfaces require a lot of maintenance, especially in high-traffic areas.
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Weeds are serious problems on sports fields, parks and other sites covered with turfgrass. A new strategy uses mechanical force to kill them instead of chemical herbicides.
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Pollen counts focus on the amount of grains in the air, but it could be the species that are more important.
Nowhere for wildlife to Hyde.
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Keeping urban habitats such as parks neat and tidy by removing dead wood and leaves is driving the species which live there to extinction.
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Spinifex grass is a (slightly ugly) Aussie battler that keeps on giving.
Hayfever.
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Unlocking the genetic code of certain grasses could help allergy sufferers.