The Azolla plants saw to that, eliminating their own habitat when they transformed the global climate (humans, take note). As a stand-in, plant geneticist Martienssen has set his sights on duckweed, ...

A RECENT study by researchers from the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) revealed that growing azolla with rice can minimize the damage caused by golden apple snail (GAS) to the crop. Lead ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. With each fern no wider than an inch, mosquito ferns turned ...

A dense coating of aquatic weeds has annoyed visitors for months. A pervasive bloom of aquatic weeds across the surface of Spring Lake that has bedeviled visitors for months may finally be on its way ...