An innovative new project has joined the fish, plants and other critters at Fellows Lake, where state and Springfield area partners hope to improve water quality and wildlife habitat. The floating ...

PROVIDENCE – The first thing you notice is the bamboo frame rising high above Polo Lake in Roger Williams Park. Up close, you see the cardinal flowers, blue vervain, mountain mint and other colorful ...

Artificial floating wetlands naturally filter water from contaminants and excess nutrients. There are about a dozen in the state, and the Missouri Department of Conservation wants to add more. On a ...

A litany of solutions exist that can rid the region’s waters of contaminants and persistent algae blooms, yet one contender remains relatively unknown. It’s simple, maybe a little slimy, inexpensive ...

The National Aquarium in Baltimore has opened the National Aquarium Harbor Wetland, a 10,000-sf floating wetland that mimics the Inner Harbor’s original Chesapeake Bay tidal marsh habitat. Located ...

Floating treatment wetlands (FTWs) represent an innovative, nature‐based solution that utilises buoyant platforms to support emergent macrophytes, whose roots directly interact with the water column ...

GREENE COUNTY, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and City Utilities (CU) of Springfield are teaming up to improve water quality at Fellows Lake just north of Springfield by ...

Five small islands roughly the size of backyard swimming pools float next to the concrete riverbank of Bubbly Creek, a stretch of the Chicago River named for the gas that once rose to the surface ...

After a September morning of on-site planting was completed at South Lake Park, the city of Overland Parks’ first floating wetland was set afloat into the park’s lake by Brett Maasen, supervisor with ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Arts + Culture on the Trail plan for the Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail is in its early phases of development and community engagement. The goal of this plan is to enhance the space ...