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 ...

Who would have thought that venture capital just needed a little help from its friends in philanthropy to get its mojo back. For much of the past decade, the lion’s share of venture funding has gone ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. With each fern no wider than an inch, mosquito ferns turned ...

BOSTON, Sept. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Azolla Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies with the potential for gigaton-scale climate impact, today announced ...

As the cost of animal feeds continues to rise in Uganda, many farmers are searching for affordable and sustainable alternatives to feed their livestock. One solution that is gradually attracting ...

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, ...

Prime Coalition, a nonprofit that steers and influences capital to support scalable solutions to climate change, and Azolla Ventures – an impact-first investing firm launched by Prime – have recently ...

Al-Mafraq, Jordan – Inside a greenhouse in al-Makeefta village in northern Jordan, Iman al-Athemat stood holding a spaghetti strainer she uses to harvest Azolla growing on the surface of pools. The ...

Fifty-five million years ago, when scientists believe the Earth was in a near-runaway state, dangerously overheated by greenhouse gases, the Arctic Ocean was also a very different place. It was a ...

The aquatic term, 'azolla' together with the blue-green algae (anabaena azollae) provides a symbiotic association that can fix agronomically significant amounts of nitrogen (N). The usefulness of ...