Native grasses making green lawns greener

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Lawns may be literally green, but the side effects of maintaining grass are frequently bad for the environment. Now scientists may have found a way to make lawns more eco-friendly. Mark Simmons, a scientist at The University of Texas at Austin, has spent the past few years developing grass that doesn’t need pesticides or fertilizers.

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