The American lawn has come under fire lately. It’s filled with non-native plant species, it’s lousy wildlife habitat, you can’t eat anything growing in it, and you have to burn fossil fuels to mow it. But, it turns out your manicured lawn might be much better than expected at sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. Biology […]
Urban Ecosystem Services with Carly Ziter
Ecosystem services can be thought of as the resources or benefits we get from nature. As you might expect, urban ecosystem services, then, are those benefits found in urban environments. So, PNM reporter Kai Brito invited Carly Ziter, an urban ecologist and Ph.D candidate at UW-Madison, as his guest on the show. Among her many […]
