Optimists such as Troncone think that natural causes — wind, and shifting nutrient and salinity levels — will eventually cause the duckweed to die out. Venezuela’s environment minister Ana Elisa ...

A tiny aquatic plant called duckweed might help remove contaminants from ponds and slow-moving waterbodies and then could be harvested and incorporated into animal feed. An interdisciplinary team of ...

Duckweed, the collective name for small floating macrophytes in the Lemnaceae family, has emerged as a dual-purpose solution for nutrient remediation and biomass generation. Its rapid frond ...