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The unexpected benefits of canary grass

by catherinea | February 18, 2010

Researchers seeking to beautify contaminated industrial sites found success in more ways than one when they struck upon an unexpected new source for green biomass fuel.

The team from Teeside University's Contaminated Land and Water Centre began a project in 2004 to see which plants could be successfully grown on ugly brownfield sites as a way of improving unsightly blots on the landscape.

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