Scientists have been campaigning to turn the fast-growing Azolla into a food of the future. Others envision it becoming both a sustainable biofuel and a fertilizer that captures carbon. What is Azolla ...

Azolla is a floating aquatic fern with a very fast growth. That’s important for multiple reasons, the first being that the fern shows “great promise as a biofuel,” says Rothfel. While it’s been used ...

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Behind the shift which created the balmy climate of the past few million years was a geological coincidence: The isolation of the Arctic Ocean. At this critical point in history, the newly enclosed ...

Wetlands biologist Asan Baghevzadeh, grabs a handful of the aquatic azolla plant in the Anzali wetlands on Iran's Caspian Sea coast near Bandar-e-Anzali. ((AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)) Fifty million ...

Homo sapiens is apparently not the only species to have single-handedly changed Earth’s climate. That dubious distinction is shared with Azolla, a diminutive floating fern sometimes called water ...

Much like Frodo in The Lord of the Rings, the fern Azolla filiculoides proves that the small can certainly pack a punch. This minuscule water fern, which has leaves the size of a single gnat, is the ...