If you ever watch a duck float across a pond, gobbling up the vegetation coating the surface, that bird is way ahead of its time. The buoyant greenery is azolla, a tiny fern that grows like crazy, ...

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 ...

Those driving along the Delta Highway north of the Valley River Center Mall may notice a unique quirk of the Delta Ponds this time of year: they are red. The red stuff adorning the 150-acre waterway ...

Like a priceless painting, the beautiful blue and green swirl in a lake or pond presents a look-don’t-touch kind of situation. It’s the work of proliferating cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green ...

For awhile, it looked as if water in the Cub Run — and even the Occoquan — might be in jeopardy from a strange, red plant that suddenly covered a pond in Centreville. Named azolla caroliniana the ...

Nothing indicates autumn as much as foliage changing colors. But some Eugene residents may have noticed a particular pond's vibrant hue preceding most of the trees above. Once again, the Delta Ponds, ...

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