Our promising findings show floating cut-flower farms could be a sustainable option for mitigating water pollution. One of us (Locke-Rodriguez) is expanding this research and working to scale up ...

The Village of Pinecrest spearheads environmental innovation with a new pilot program that uses floating flower islands to filter pollutants, remove invasive plants and improve water quality in ...

Wetlands are a defining feature of South Florida’s ecosystem in the Everglades, and free-floating native plants like duckweed and water hyacinth filter out the nitrogen and supply oxygen to the ...

the problem of dumping flower waste, leaves and other decoration material into water bodies which results in pollution is yet to be fully resolved. While efforts are being made by civic ...

Every November, when the rains finally stop falling in Nigeria, water hyacinths begin to settle on the country’s waterways. The floating plants, with their glossy fist-sized leaves and ...

Florida International University Flowers grown on inexpensive floating platforms can help clean polluted waterways, over 12 weeks extracting 52% more phosphorus and 36% more nitrogen than the natural ...

Jazmin Locke received funding from the USDA-NIFA-NNF and NSF-CREST as a PhD student to help fund this dissertation research at Florida International University. [email protected] receives funding ...