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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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 ...

Fowls feed on Azolla ferns grown in a greenhouse at the farm of Palestinian farmer Ibrahim Al-Zeraei, in Dir Al Balah city, central Gaza Strip, Oct. 13, 2021. Due to high price of animal feed in the ...

When you’re a tiny fern in a big, cruel world, how do you survive insect attacks and stay fed? Teaming up with bacteria might do the trick! Biologists have sequenced the genomes of ferns for the first ...

Kathleen Pryer is professor of biology at Duke University and president of the American Fern Society. Fifty million years ago, the Earth was so warm that turtles and alligators thrived in lush forests ...

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 ...