Across America, nearly 30 million acres of lawns have sprung back to life, providing a soft landing for kids at play, a blanket for families to picnic and a cushion for bare feet to roam.
Yet the greatest benefit of healthy grass -- what it means to the environment -- is one that is nearly always overlooked. Indeed, turf is about much more than aesthetics. For most of suburban America, it's the foundation of the neighborhood's ecosystem

A healthy lawn provides the following environmental benefits:

 
 
 

Cooling: Lawns have substantial cooling effect via evaporation.
Clean air: Grass not only creates oxygen but improves the quality of the environment by removing pollutants and other particles from the atmosphere.
Decomposes organic pollutants: Turf organisms are active in the decomposition of organic waste and hydrocarbons, which leads to soil improvement.
Lessens global warming: Grass can absorb and sequester carbon dioxide gases.
Noise filter: Grass and other ornamentals help absorb sound, potentially reducing noise pollution in some areas by 20 to 30 percen
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