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 ...

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 ...

FIFTY million years ago the Earth was overheated by greenhouse gases and the future of life seemed bleak. But a little green fern saved the day. Can it do it again? Behind the shift which created the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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