Natural History Wanderings

ScienceDaily reports on this study from the University of Copenhagen

Danes shuttle nearly a million tons of garden waste from their gardens every year. But we would be doing the climate a great service if we just left it alone, according to the new calculations. At the same time, leaves and other garden waste are a boon for backyard biodiversity and soil.

Read more at  By leaving garden waste alone, we could store 600,000 tons of CO2 per year — ScienceDaily